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
31 May 2023 5:30 AMToday, there are a great many places where neutral humanitarian action is under grave threat.
Stanley Engerman, a revisionist scholar of slavery
30 May 2023 9:30 AMThey 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
29 May 2023 1:30 PMEven 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...
27 May 2023 1:30 PMThe 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
27 May 2023 5:30 AMIt 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
26 May 2023 5:30 AMAnti-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
23 May 2023 9:30 AMThe 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...