As a result of the social distancing measures combating the coronavirus, kids were sent home to school. School administrators responded by sending a modified version of the school curriculum home for parents to administer. When we first received the curriculum, my husband and I asked for permission to substitute activities…

Look at the statue of Lincoln pictured above. Does he look a bit different than usual as he looks down on our new President? Here is his normal emotional state, for comparison:

Digging deep for something healing to say, I came up with this satiric fantasy. Hearing reports of Trump’s meeting with various members of government as he prepares to be president, one gets a strange impression. The person he seemed by far most genuinely thrilled to meet was … Obama. After their meeting he…

Almost by accident I was in the park watching my kids when a crowd gathered to watch the supermoon rise. Inexplicably, the crowd was misinformed about the expected time of the moonrise. The wait dragged on and on. Darkness fell. I didn’t have the glowsticks I would normally bring to a night-time play session…

The article Daring to Discuss Women in Science by John Tierney in the New York Times on June 7, 2010 purports to present a dispassionate scientific defense of Larry Summers’s claims. …

After the first presidential debate, it has become a matter of public discussion whether Alicia Machado gained “too much” weight as Miss Universe. A devil’s-advocate argument defends this position: “Based on the contract she signed and the position she held Machado’s weight gain was no different than an athlete showing…