Tennis star Naomi Osaka withdrew from the 2021 French Open and resulted in a mix of support and criticism. Support from people and athletes that sympathize with the need to address one's mental health and well-being, and criticism from people and athletes that have less sympathy to professional athlete's contractual obligations to appe...

Change isn't a light switch. But many seem to think it is. Some think that after a certain point in time, the switch breaks, and someone can never change. Or they seem to see others change so easily, so when they struggle to change, they must be doing something wrong. Change isn't a light switch. It isn't something where you do a singl...

In disasters, whether it's caused by the unpredictable (the 03.11.11 earthquake in Japan, and subsequent tsunami), or the predictable (the brutal winter weather that swept through the US, and subsequent days long failure of the Texas power grid), our reliance on public and private institutions are tested. Infrastructure Depending on wh...

...and more is less, and less is more. My first experience with the internet or the world wide web (is that where www comes from?) wasn't on Chrome or Internet Explorer. It wasn't even on Firefox or it's predecessor, Netscape Navigator. It was on a text only "web" browser known as Lynx. No images, or image carousels. No videos, no anim...