Freedom House a human rights organization which ranks countries in term of freedom each year says that freedom lost ground in 2009. It cited the countries where freedom seemed worse, and as I read it was easy to feel disheartened. And then I began to get email upon email about the earthquake in Haiti, some…

We’re closer to finding out if there’s life out there! We’re four to five years away from it, or as Simon Worden, an astronomer who heads NASA’s Ames Research Center, said, getting to the bottom of that question. That is because the Kepler telescope is making numerous new discoveries possible. Of course the question of…

A while back NYT columnist Tom Friedman wrote a column about the Middle East where he suggested that people of the region were going to have to decide they loved their children more than they hated each other. Maybe it hasn’t come to pass in a big way, but it may be beginning. A young…