RULE YOUR MIND AND MASTER YOURSELF

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself”—Leonardo DiVinci Self-mastery is when we’re able to see and embrace the raw, most authentic version of ourselves. It’s essential to growth, success, and true happiness. Self-mast...

Space tourism is here – 20 years after the first stellar tourist, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to send civilians to space

Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson on the International Space Station with a view many more are likely to see soon. NASA/Tracy Caldwell Dyson/WIkimediaCommonsFor most people, getting to the stars is nothi...

Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies

Warming is clearly visible in new US 'climate normal' datasets

Sunrise in Stone Harbor, New Jersey.Robert D. Barnes via Getty ImagesAnyone who listens to weather reports has heard meteorologists comment that yesterday’s temperature was 3 degrees above norma...

Russ Schumacher, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University

Faces of those America is leaving behind in Afghanistan

The people of Afghanistan that the author encountered live very different lives from Americans.Brian Glyn Williams, CC BY-NDU.S. troops are already heading home from Afghanistan, ending a two-decade-l...

Brian Glyn Williams, Professor of Islamic History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Police academies dedicate 3.21% of training hours to ethics and other public service topics – new research

A Los Angeles County police graduation ceremony, Aug. 21, 2020 in Monterey Park, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty ImagesPolice academies provide little training in the kinds of skills necessary to meet office...

Galia Cohen, Assistant Professor, Director of the Division of Public Administration, Tarleton State University

My Musical Journey – Zarbo

People call me Zarbo. I call myself an artist/producer currently focused on creating catchy electronic dance music and exploring new genres that didn’t exist at the beginning of my musical career in...

Alex Zarbo

Nocturnal dinosaurs: Night vision and superb hearing in a small theropod suggest it was a moonlight predator

Fossils of _Shuvuuia deserti_ depict a small predatory creature with exceptional night vision and hearing.Mick Ellison/American Natural History Museum, CC BY-NDToday, barn owls, bats, leopards and man...

Lars Schmitz, Associate Professor of Biology, Scripps College

Wildfires are contaminating drinking water systems, and it's more widespread than people realize

Fire in one part of a community can contaminate the water system used by other residents, as Santa Rosa, California, discovered after the Tubbs Fire.Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesMore than 58,000 fires ...

Andrew J. Whelton, Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, Director of the Healthy Plumbing Consortium and Center for Plumbing Safety, Purdue University

Reducing methane is crucial for protecting climate and health, and it can pay for itself – yet emissions are still rising fast, a new UN report warns

Methane is the world’s second most abundant greenhouse gas. It doesn't stay in the atmosphere as long as CO2, but it's many times more potent.Photo by Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty I...

Drew Shindell, Professor of Climate Sciences, Duke University

What the US can learn from Africa about slavery reparations

Activists mark National Reparations Day in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2019.Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe House Judiciary Committee voted on April 14, 2021, to recommend the creation of a commission to s...

Kwasi Konadu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor, Colgate University

Anti-transgender bills are latest version of conservatives' longtime strategy to rally their base

A rally at the Alabama Statehouse on March 30, 2021, to draw attention to and protest anti-transgender legislation introduced in Alabama.Julie Bennett/Getty ImagesOn April 6, 2021, despite Republican ...

Alison Gash, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon