Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.