Articles

The Wright brothers harnessed the laws of aerodynamics in the first sustained powered flight. Their story illustrates a more compelling challenge.

Vision speaks with Farrol Kahn, founder and director of the Aviation Medicine Institute, about health issues related to flying.

One of the great women archaeologists of the 20^th century, Kathleen Kenyon will be greatly remembered for her substantial contributions to the field.

David H. Olson, president of Life Innovations, talks to Vision about the subject of marriage and discusses some of the challenges facing couples today.

Knowing the difference between good and evil is one of the most important pieces of understanding we can have.

Solving puzzles often requires a change in perspective and thinking. The greatest puzzle facing humanity today is a case in point.

Oil isn’t the only resource that helps shape the peace and regulate the balance of power in the Middle East.

Probably the single biggest threat to the Middle East’s water supply is the region’s burgeoning population.

The issues of faith and reason, science and religion, underlie much of the current distress in the world. Yet they are not necessarily opposed to each other.

Vision reviews four books that explore how we handle our relationships and how the choices we make impact our social connections.

Greed is as old as human history. Enough, it seems, is seldom enough.

An amazing technology promises freedom from our more troubling genetic predispositions.

Information revealed through the decoding of DNA 50 years ago has been astounding, but there is still much to be learned. Is science up to the challenge?

The science of how our bodies operate at the chemical level is technically complex, but the landmarks of the cellular processes are fairly simple.

In pioneering the philosophy called positivism, August Comte had a profound effect on the most noted philosophers of the 20^th century.

On the spiritual side of life there are many ideas with suspect origins.

Globalization has become shorthand for the complex network of trends that is driving the world closer together. Vision reviews four books on this subject.

As we entered our fifth year of publication, we reviewed all past issues and realized that a number of articles are timely and timeless and could be grouped together for greater meaning.

More and more couples are willing to endure the pain of ending a marriage, a fact that is reshaping society itself, according to experts.

Vision speaks with Malise Ruthven, a noted authority on Islam, about the events of September 11, 2001.