Occam’s razor is the principle that the most plausible explanation of events is the simplest. Most often this is true. To account for Donald Trump, however, we need a different hermeneutical ...

The church today faces a profound interpretive challenge. Nearly every denomination is shrinking, and in the past 25 years about 40 million American adults have left the church. The impulse is to ...

Spotify has acquired the sample-sourcing website WhoSampled. The streaming service announced that it’s rolling out a new feature called SongDNA, which will aggregate and centralize samples and covers ...

I’ve recently published Design Ideas (DIs) showing circuits for linear PWM programming of standard bucking-type regulators in applications requiring an output span that can swing below the regulator’s ...

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

There is growing appetite in Silicon Valley for the legally murky and morally frowned upon practice of embryo-editing. This is how it would work: Companies would use existing gene-editing technology ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a new “plausible mechanism” pathway that will enable the limited approval of bespoke therapies when randomized trials are impractical. FDA will ...

We are living in a turbulent and ever-changing world, flooded by multiple and ongoing emerging threats and risks. To manage this risky terrain, Catherine Drummond, Partner at LCP, argues that insurers ...

The amount of noise The Row’s annual sample sale generated last weekend was perhaps antithetical to the brand’s ultimate quiet luxury status. But what else could be expected? The brand’s legions of ...

A quick scan of the Nobel Peace Prize criteria and standards immediately appears to disqualify our current president from consideration for this award. Replacing “defense” with “war” doesn’t help, but ...

According to the Trump administration, the broad outlines of Vladimir Putin’s proposal to end the war in Ukraine are coming into focus. Ukraine would give Russia control of approximately 6,600 square ...

I’ve written before about my use of POT papers in my first-year seminar called “How to Think Like a Psychologist.” POT stands for “proof of thinking.” Students write about readings or topics of their ...