Current Affairs

A good website to look up your current officials and the future candidates. Type in your zip code on the left and it will show you the list of officials and candidates. Click on any one of them to see their profile. There’s lots of information from their background to their voting record. Project Vote […]

Scientists can tell where your ancestors are from by examining your genes. (There’s a $400 test available to those interested.) Some of the consequences can be positive, medications can be tailored to racial background. Some can be negative, you can imagine discrimination of all types based on this knowledge. Others may be just plain confusing.

This Pakistani woman was “punished” for an alleged affair that her brother had. Because he supposedly had an affair, she was sentenced to be gang raped by the woman’s brothers. After the sentence was completed, and she walked home naked in front of the whole town, she was expected to commit suicide. Instead she charged

I believe some day soon most of us will be paid by the job, the work we actually accomplish, rather than having a fixed salary. A new tool called eShift is bringing us one step closer. Hospitals needing nurses post the available shifts on the web with the maximum hourly amount they will pay. Nurses

For those of you that have been speculating for some time that the weather has been changing over your lifetime, you are right. Attributed by some to global warming, the number of hurricanes, thunderstorms and tornados has been increasing. One statistic that caught my eye: “Iowa has already experienced a record high of 110 tornadoes

If you walk up to a stranger on the New York subway and say “Excuse me, may I have your seat?” what will they do? According to several studies, over 60% of people will stand up and give you their seat. However, that’s not the interesting point of the study. Amazingly, it was extremely difficult

Here’s an essay by Middlebury’s College last president about the things he would have liked to say as president, What Your College President Didn’t Tell You. One point that struck home to me was the drinking age. Having a drinking age of 21 does not make any sense and it does not solve any problems.

Here’s a great essay from U.S. Senator John McCain on courage. He defines courage as more than just doing something you are afraid of. It’s doing something right in the face of fear. “Courage is that rare moment of unity between conscience, fear, and action, when something deep within us strikes the flint of love,

Is the church trying to appear bureaucratic, unreasonable, inflexible and old fashioned? They are refusing to allow a young girl to use a wafer without wheat for her first communion. Yahoo! News – Church Says Girls’ Communion Not Valid

It’s no longer possible to travel anonymously within our own country – at least by airplane. John Gilmore filed suit against the government asking to see the law that requires ID to fly and he’s asked the courts to declare it unconstitutional. Wired News: Flight ID Fight Revived