Ever since Ancient Greece and Rome—perhaps Akkadian times, too, with the poetry of Enheduanna, the poet-daughter of Sargon the Great—authority has been blessed by challengers. Even the … more

  The famous Doomsday Clock was the idea of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It’s now 2 1/2 minutes to Midnight. The Atomic Scientists — some of them worked on the … more