Imagine it’s 1776, and you are in a one-room schoolhouse. An authoritarian teacher stands in the front of the room. Students sit in rows, memorizing and reciting content. Authority flows in one ...

If our citizens understood the dangers we are facing with our wild, out-of-control spending and the enormous advantages of a balanced or near-balanced budget, we might get support for fiscal sanity in ...

Medicine has always attracted perfectionists. The problem is that the kind of perfectionism increasingly common among young adults today may be exactly the kind physicians can least afford. A new meta ...

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The problem isn’t that dying patients lack options. It’s that our health care system too often abandons them when they need support most. Jane Swift served as governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to ...

A cruise balcony cabin can feel like an upgrade, but not every view is as open as passengers expect. In this case, the cabin was not officially treated like a classic obstructed-view room, yet a ledge ...

As the adage goes, “big things come in tiny packages.” Just ask the humble bumblebee. A team of researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland published a research paper on June 4, suggesting that ...

Recently, I was riding my bicycle up a steep hill when I noticed a knee-jerk reaction to sway the bike from left to right. I wondered why this was an instinctual movement, since at first glance, it ...

We have a historian problem here in New Mexico. It’s not a problem with either our history or an interest in our history. It’s a problem with how our history is being told and by whom. It wasn’t long ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a problem-solving process ...