I think I should just lay it out here: I don’t think “Project Hail Mary” was a great movie. Also, just to make the purists really upset with me, I didn’t love the book either. I know. As a scientist, I was supposed to really like this story as it dove into scientific ideas to save ...

To end the summer well, I am wading into the most controversial topic in American history — daylight saving time. The United States House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act last month and 19 states, including Utah, want to move to permanent daylight saving time. It presents ...

In the pantheon of parental duties, shopping for school supplies stands alone. At the tripart crossroads of "least enjoyable," "most expensive" and "least negotiable," it is an intrinsic part of life in late summer, and it has been since I was a kid in the Cretaceous era. I remember it much ...

The absence of snowfall last winter combined with record high temperatures this summer set the stage for a devastating fire season. We knew it was coming but didn’t anticipate so many fires in so many places. We’re never prepared to watch entire neighborhoods in flames, never prepared to ...

Can I claim to have predicted, way back in 1988, the result of Michigan's fiercely contested Democratic primary for U.S. senator this week? The developments that have made Abdul El-Sayed -- who lost the 2018 gubernatorial primary to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) by 20 percentage points -- ...

Embracing change can be an interesting challenge. In general, I would say that I’m someone who doesn’t mind getting comfortable and not having things changed to dramatically. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t a time when I felt like change was valuable, either in my career or in my ...