I like the word wayfarer. It fits us humans. We are all travelers on the road of life. Me? I take wayfaring seriously. I walk daily for a couple of hours, and...
Science and technology
When the Disney movie Frozen was released in 2013 it didn’t take long before my daughter was singing every song from the movie. After hearing the movie’s...
When I was a junior in high school—a Catholic, all-girls school—I advanced to the regional round of the state science exposition. My parents drove me to...
I came to faith because of magnets. I was raised in a family that found no conflict between faith and science. It was only when I was older that I learned that...
On a cold, overcast December day, I found myself taking in with delight the natural world of millions of years ago during a visit to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie...
In our day concerns about ecology are rising. Climate change, pollution, and extinction of plant and animal species make us question harmful human treatment of...
When Heather Camm, a chemistry teacher at an all-girls Catholic high school, began designing a new, year-long course in scientific ethics, she knew she would...
Ecologist Reuben Keller knows that caring for the planet requires thinking beyond the environmental sciences. Trek up to Reuben Keller’s Chicago office, and...
When I was a college freshman—at the time a liberal arts major—my creative writing instructor told us that the way to learn how to write stories was to read...
In 2014 a New York advertising agency created the NoPhone, which is a $12 plastic rectangle that looks like a smartphone. Initially marketed as a satirical...
