Brian Shul: Fighter pilot who flew world’s fastest plane
Major Shul piloted the Blackbird for 2,000 hours over four years.
Why the world needs neutrals
Today, there are a great many places where neutral humanitarian action is under grave threat.
Stanley Engerman, a revisionist scholar of slavery
They insisted that the typical slave “was not lazy, inept and unproductive” but rather “was harder working and more efficient than his white...
Ultrasound pulses send mice into a hibernation-like state
Even laboratory mice, if deprived of food, can enter a state called torpor, a kind of standby mode that economizes energy.
Lineage matters: Cleopatra’s daughter led a life as eventful as her...
The record of her deeds lost in the heady accounts of the civil wars that convulsed the entire Mediterranean at the time.
Paradigm shift: Why varsities should be more like monasteries
It implies a return to the university system’s roots in the monastic schools of medieval Europe and rekindling the old-fashioned quest for meaning
Dangerous Addiction: Keeping plastic out of our oceans
Anti-plastic policies only slightly reduce consumption, not nearly enough to offset the anticipated population growth in the years ahead.
Combat readiness: Why Ukraine needs those F-16s
The apex of current fighter technology is fifth-generation stealth fighters, which include the American F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II and Russia’s...
