The Christian Science Monitor 
Does this topic make Hollywood screenwriters drool, or what? While it sounds like science fiction (and has figured into the story line of any number of Hollywood hits), it is now science without the fiction. Right now, asteroids are hurtling through…
Former US Marine James Cummiskey is seen on one of his coffee farms near Medellín, Colombia.(Courtesy of Christian Gonzales/CIMA Coffee Farms) After 20 years in the US military, James Cummiskey was divorced and looking for a change. Relenting to his…
Charles Bandy of Feeding South Florida organizes bags of produce in West Park, Fla., to be distributed to residents in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday. (AP Photo) The presumed origin of the American Thanksgiving – a Pilgrim-Indian feast of gratitude…
Signs on window advertise a bitcoin ATM that has been installed in a Waves Coffee House in Vancouver, British Columbia in October. The new ATM will trade currency for online bit coins, a form of digital currency. (Andy Clark/Reuters) After reporting…
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade(Charles Sykes/AP/File) Whether you are sympathizing with the animated turkeys in the new movie “Free Birds,” pulling out your recipe for green bean casserole, or waiting for your favorite “Duck Dynasty” stars…
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura investigated conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for a 2010 television program. ( Edward M. Pio Roda/Trutv/PRNewsFoto/File) Lee Harvey Oswald, a fame-seeking Communist from New…
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy (r.) accompanies his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov (c.) following their meeting in Cairo on Thursday. Russian officials are visiting Egypt to explore a major upgrade in relations, including new military sales…
Bob Lehrman teaching speechwriting at a workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Courtesy of the Government of Vietnam) “Have you seen the lake from your window?” asks Thuy, a graduate student assigned to help me, during dinner. “I didn’t look,” I say. “They gave…
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif waits for the start of two days of closed-door nuclear talks at the United Nations offices in Geneva Switzerland, Nov. 7. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone/AP/File) The banners that sprung up in Tehran had one…
Pedro J. Ramirez, founder and director of conservative Spanish newspaper El Mundo, in Madrid in July. Mr. Ramirez, better known as Pedro J, and his paper have been leading the criticism of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – a surprising turn,…
Nick Bremner, Aaron Bremner, and Joel Bremner, from Sonoma, Calif., take a look at the solar eclipse through homemade masks out of welding glass in May 2012 in Chico, Calif. On Sunday, a partial eclipse will be visible on the east coast, weather permitting…
Protesters stand outside the Federal Court House in Detroit, where Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was scheduled to testify, Monday. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) In more than three hours of often-contentious testimony Monday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder defended…
This is the cover story in the Oct. 28 issue of The Christian Science MonitorWeekly.(Phil Marden illustration) Imagine a health insurance system for the employee of the future. A woman sits at her tool-and-die station, say, in a mid-size company in…
Energy efficiency – power not used – has been revolutionized by the Internet. Our ‘negawattage’ is saving as much power as an oil boom would create. This is the cover story of Oct. 7, 2013 issue of The Christian Science MonitorWeekly.(John Kehe/…
The Wal-Mart logo is displayed in Springfield, Ill. Wal-Mart shares dropped Thursday on news that the world’s largest retailer was cutting its orders to suppliers in the face of rising store inventory.(Seth Perlman/AP/File) From worker protests to missed…