In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...

It’s hard to disagree with wise old Ralph W. Emerson who said, “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world,” since these are exceptionally fearful times. The mainstream media’s ...

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

I get why some people are tempted to mount their TVs up high. Hanging like the stuffed head of a majestic beast, your TV sleek OLED screen feels like the crown jewel of the living room. But while it ...

This essay is part of Finding Beauty, a series on discovering joy in the unexpected. Growing up, I had an enormous pine tree in my backyard in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. It stretched above the roof of my two ...

The historic tree is alive, but it lost some of the record height that made it the tallest Douglas fir in the world. Volunteer tree climbers Damien Carré with Oregon Tree Care in Oregon City and Logan ...

Several environmental groups are challenging the federal government’s determination that red tree voles in Oregon do not warrant threatened or endangered status. The Center for Biological Diversity ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Follow these steps to find the length of a String in Java: Declare a variable of type String ...