I grew up idolizing my older cousin, Bhadun Apu. She has always been the genius in the family. The one...

Stephen Hawking symbolized everything that humanity is poised to achieve

The new Doctor Who is a woman. So what?

Looking past politics and the latest terror attack

We need to be rational and valiant in the face of terror

Our planet looks lonely and fragile from space

We don’t need to look far to find oppression

Our experience with art, like the feeling of reading a good novel, is an intensely personal one

The public cares about things as trifling as audio jacks, but turns a blind eye to factory workers

You will be surprised at what the human brain is capable of

Science isn’t a normal way of thinking. It has to be learned

Don’t build walls around your country, because immigrants will bring you gold

There is a lot of prejudice in the world, but there are more than enough means to eradicate it

Plenty of our pop culture heroes use their brains

We are living in terribly violent times. But was the past better?