7 Questions for Steven Pinker, 2006 Humanist of the Year Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, popular science author, and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He has... Read More

"HOW CAN YOU STAND IT?" The young woman appeared to be on the brink of tears but there was anger in her voice too. “I mean, every day your job requires you to hear about... Read More

The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams W. W. Norton & Company (2015) From Chapter One: Changing... Read More

(Please see AHA’s statement on sexual harassment allegations against Dr. Krauss here.) LAWRENCE KRAUSS has had an extensive and impressive career in theoretical physics. He received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics at Carleton University... Read More

LYNN ROTHSCHILD is a senior scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center and an adjunct professor at both Brown University and the University of California Santa Cruz. In addition to publishing numerous academic papers, she co-edited Evolution... Read More

THE ONION is a world-renowned satirical publication started in 1988 by University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. After gaining popularity in college towns and then on the Internet with the launch of... Read More

MARCI A. HAMILTON is one of the United States’ leading church/state scholars, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Program in Religion and Urban Civil Society, and holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in... Read More