Knowledge is power said Elizabethan Francis Bacon. The father of empiricism, or modern science, put his faith in the observable rather than the spiritual. Studying nature was enough to glorify God, he said. Since then, mankind has amassed a store of information in subjects far ranging

A woman joined me at the retirement center where I sat drinking coffee and sighed.  “My doctor wants me to lose weight, but I don’t eat that much.  I skip breakfast, have a muffin mid-morning and only sit for a meal at dinner.  Still, I’m gaining weight.”  My companion suf

Thinking about Artificial Intelligence, Stephen Hawking warns, “One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.” (“The End of Code,” by Jason Tanz,