CRISPR technology may change the world as we know it
UC Berkeley biochemist won the Nobel Prize for the revolutionary CRISPR technology that is leading to breakthroughs in medicine.
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Author: Mal Warwick
Religious conflict in Elizabethan England fuels this gripping spy story
There is no lack of religious conflict in today’s world. Hindus against Muslims. Sunni vs. Shia. Christians and Jews squaring off against Muslims. But it’s hard to find anything today to surpass the sheer complexity of the festering three-way collision of incompatible faiths in...
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Welcome to the apocalypse
Fear of the apocalypse has been with us for thousands of years. According to the mental health professionals at verywellmind.com, “Doomsday phobias are surprisingly common.” They’re found “in some form in virtually every corner of the world.” Sometimes these delusions...
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The American fashion model who spied for the Allies in World War II
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Most accounts of Allied spies in World War II highlight their heroic exploits. Stealing top-secret documents. Operating clandestine radios. Leading scores or hundreds of Resistance fighters in battle. Or blowing up Nazi troop trains. Aline Griffith did none of...
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The immigrant experience in America through many eyes
Then-Senator John F. Kennedy’s 1958 book, A Nation of Immigrants, brought to light a historical reality that few at the time had thought much about. Fewer than ten million out of 180 million Americans were foreign-born then. But by 1990, following the generous Immigration Act of 1965, that...
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