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...
Science and technology
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...
Online social activism isn’t limited to the under-35 set. There’s one older leader who has become famous for it: Pope Francis. Over...
Imagine if we were able to see evolution as a sign of the unlimited potential of God’s creation, rather than a threat to our limited point of view. For the...
The latest Marvel blockbuster, Avengers: Age of Ultron, predictably packed them in when it opened in May. In this latest chapter of the superhero series, the...
The prolific science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon is credited with formulating “Sturgeon’s Law.” Confronted with the undeniable fact that there’s an awful...
Editors’ Note: In the February 2015 issue of U.S. Catholic, author Michelle Bearden profiled five Catholic scientists who have found that faith has had a...
By Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J. and Father Paul Mueller, S.J. (Image, 2014) If you picked up Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? solely on the...
Flesh may be weak, but our skin is what holds us together and keeps us human. Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that can do things we...
Sometimes the best conversations happen when we keep our mouths shut and our ears open. When was the last time you really listened? If you’re anything like me...
