We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella.
The Optimism Bias
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NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Is Approaching Asteroid Vesta
Schoolchildren by the thousands wept when Pluto was officially banished from the ranks of the major planets back in 2006, but for the asteroids, demotion to the interplanetary minor leagues is very old news. When Ceres was discovered in 1801 during a search of the mysteriously empty space between Mars and Jupiter, astronomers were convinced they’d found a new planet.
America’s Holy War
To say that God is everywhere in American life is as much a statement of fact as of faith.
Educators take heat over Obama school speech
Call it a lesson in contemporary political discourse. Educators across America found themselves at the center of a political storm this week as conservatives exploded in anger over President Obama’s plans to give a speech to the country’s schoolchildren