It is an ongoing myth you need to write short, pithy posts. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you wish to tell deeper stories, do it, says Adam Singer.

Exterminating wolves from Yellowstone de-watered the land. Their reintroduction has reshaped an entire ecosystem and shown how large predators regulate their ecosystems.

Across Europe, right-wing populist parties are enjoying significant popular support. They are exploiting fear of Muslim immigration and frustration with the political establishment.

"To fix the U.S.-China trade imbalance, new initiatives are needed to encourage Americans to save more and Chinese to spend more."

"David Simon, the creator TV hit 'The Wire', has it in writing from as unimpeachable a source as you could think of: he is a genius." And he gets $500,000 for it.

Condemned by cyperspace for unmasking a civil servant blogger, 'The Australian' newspaper defends itself: It was a good story and he deserved no special treatment.

"You spot them pretty quickly… Put 15 people in a room and the chances are that there will be two of them. Thirteen will make the effort. The other two will be bigots and proud of it."

The first time you see a painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, you probably don’t know what to make of it. It’s clearly some kind of joke, but what kind? When you […]

When I wrote that the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy would come up for a vote, I said that it was unlikely to be repealed.  What I should have […]

This month, federal regulators vindicated Dr. Maria New, a leading pediatric endocrinologist who studies prenatal treatment for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a hereditary disease that exposes the fetus to excessive […]

By studying the neural networks in the brain, scientists have constructed computer-based models that mirror the brain's complex biological networks. 

I’m putting out the last call for questions about Mt. Hood magmatism for Dr. Adam Kent of Oregon State University. He has offered to take your questions about his recentNature […]

TO have lived away from Britain and then to return is to realise that Britain is an increasingly parochial country, and one in which what passes for media debate is […]

There’s speculation all over the Web today about what seems at first to be an unexpected survey finding from the Pew Research Center: Even after controlling for education, Atheists, agnostics, […]

The art of narration may have emerged as an evolutionary adaptation, says the author. “If I can tell you that right over there in that river was where the crocodile […]

Reading may have evolved from early hunters’ skills of interpreting animal tracks, which allowed them to find food and determine whether they themselves were being hunted.

Books are important because electronic storage is fairly fragile. That said, e-books provide many advantages, especially for those with dyslexia and other reading disabilities.

The author tells us a Canadian sex joke.

Authors are always trying to disguise which parts of the novel were most difficult to write. For Atwood those parts are always the exposition, she says.

For the author, it’s not a question of sitting around and wondering what to write; it’s a question of deciding which of the “far-fetched and absurd” ideas she’s going to […]