Sometimes the foreign press is a better source of information for certain type of news about the US. Reading Germany’s Der Spiegel I learned that the US senate had passed a bill—not yet the whole Congress, please note—mandating a $10 entry fee for each person coming to the US from a country where a visa…

The Swiss government is considering amending its laws allowing assisted suicide. One of its clinics, Dignitas has been much in the news for allowing non Swiss citizens to come to Switzerland, pay their money (about $6000) and end their life. They apparently have no permanent space and rent apartments when they need them. In one…

The new Hubble telescope has been sending awe inspiring pictures of space. Space is turbulent, complex, colorful, powerful, reminiscent of the bottom of the deepest oceans and yet vaster, more mysterious, more intricate inviting us to do more than gape or wonder. Pictures of space propel us to ask those questions for which there are…