In addition to authoring a number of books, David Hulme has contributed essays to two volumes edited by Charles Pasternak, biochemist and founding director of the Oxford International Biomedical Centre.

As the UN pegs today as the date when human population passes 7 billion, we can expect increasingly strident calls to re-evaluate our planetary role.

Hippocrates has been quoted as saying, “Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” So what foods do qualify as health-promoting?

Mao’s Great Famine (2010) by historian Frank Dikötter chronicles the ghastly four-year period that resulted in the peacetime death of millions.

A timeline of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Is the universe accidental—now pictured as a single bubble within a cosmic foam? Or is this just a choice of belief, not an empirical conclusion?

Scientists are turning the cosmos upside down in their search for a unifying Theory of Everything. But there’s one place most of them won’t look.

Even before September 11, 2001, terrorism was a fact of life for much of the world. Must we accept that it will always be that way?

Psychologists and policymakers alike are trying to understand what makes a terrorist. How does one stop the assembly line?

Researchers Bella DePaulo and Robert Milardo explore the importance of collateral kin—aunts, uncles and others in extra-nuclear support systems.

If the winners are the ones who write history, then historical accounts are surely subject to bias and inaccuracy. Church history is no exception.

To bring change, we must first change ourselves. Right behavior begins at the individual level.

A Stanford symposium titled “Connecting the Dots” looks for connections between agriculture, energy and the environment as population grows.

In The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, journalist Charles Fishman reintroduces the reader to life’s most precious resource—water.

David Hulme spoke with military historian Sir John Keegan soon after 9/11. Vision revisits their discussion on the changing face of war.

In this interview with Jonathan Glover, which first appeared in the Summer 2001 issue, the British ethics professor addresses the human proclivity for cruelty.

The United Nations has declared 2011 the International Year of Chemistry. While the world celebrates a century of scientific progress, we have to ask how our dreams of a synthetic utopia might end.

We can learn from our mistakes. Recognizing and correcting errors, and the sources of errors, can help us avoid future errors.

Sibling violence is as old as Cain and Abel. Where is the line between “normal” sibling conflict and abusive behavior, and how and when should parents intervene?

Conflict between siblings is so common that it often goes unremarked, even unseen in many families, but its effects can be extremely damaging.