Author: Inna

Could those things possibly be satellites?  That is what the SETI Institute hopes to find out.  It should have at least preliminary results sometime this week.  In the

The Revolution matters in American politics; matters in ways that are perhaps inexplicable to most Europeans.  In matters as diverse (and as modern) as healthcare reform, religion in

We live in a complicated world.  The fact that Michael Burry, a man with Asperger’s, was one of the literally handful of people to foresee the housing collapse

In one of her columns, Barbara Wallraff once exclaimed, “What is it about language that gets people so riled?”  Oliver Kamm, in his really quite excellent book Accidence

Have you ever had a feeling that you should or shouldn’t do something?  Did you follow through with it?  If not, did you later regret it? I ask,

There was an interesting article in The New York Times that argued Trump was doing so well at least in part because of his celebrity status.  The reasoning

We live in a world where we are expected to multi-task and invent new stuff all the time and where for that reason, the older you get, the

In a column he wrote last year, David Brooks said (in essence) that he sees hope for American conservatives.  Why?  Because there are now new conservative ideas about

Egyptian royalty wore it.  As did ancient Hebrews.  As did the Phoenicians.  Archaeologists still uncover it from time to time.   It is said that Solomon wore it.  It

I heard about the discovery of Homo naledi from my husband (as I was groggily drinking a lovely cup of coffee) but I read the details thanks to