It never occurs to skeptics that a sense of wonder is paramount, even for scientists. Einstein insisted, in fact, that no great discovery can be made without a sense of awe before the mysteries of the universe.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
I was riding in a taxi the other day. The driver had the radio on. I don't like to tell drivers who have their radios on to turn them off. First, if i...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
Rachael Freed | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
Ethical wills are about values, not valuables. But what about the category of stuff -- of value or not?
James Block | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
The lump in the collective throat on this anniversary is commentary on what we chose instead.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
The question of life's meaning is a spiritual one -- one that has been largely lost due to the devaluing of spiritual and religious institutions in the country.
Lesley Stern | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy
My mind raced darkly as I approached the car. I thought to myself, 'Dear God, if I just got a $40 parking ticket in order to get free samples of Fiber One cereal, shoot me now. I'm going to be so poor, I'll have to eat the Fiber One. Why me? Life is so freaking unfair I don't think I can bear another minute. I hate Fiber One.'
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 06.26.2009 | Living
We need a national Sabbath.
Carol Fitzgerald | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business
I want to take a serious look at the special places where I like the selection, personal service or the ambiance. And support them.
Jason Mannino | Posted 02.16.2009 | Living
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde Oscar Wil...
Daniel Pinchbeck | Posted 02.15.2009 | Style
What might our society gain from the legitimate use and study of psychedelics if their benefits, as well as risks, were well understood and articulated?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living
For years now I have been passionately arguing the need for the Jewish community to serve as a light unto the nations by promulgating our values to the non-Jewish world.
Jeannie Ralston | Posted 01.01.2009 | Style
When I told my husband about the worker trampled by frenzied Wal-Mart shoppers on Friday morning, he thought it was a joke.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
This Jewish holiday begins a ten-day period during which Jews spend time in self-reflection and repentance -- I can't think of a better thing for the members of Congress to do while at home.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business
Our financial collapse is the fiscal consequence of the economic philosophy that markets are always good and government is always bad. But it is also the moral consequence of greed.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living