A thought for a Sunday column always seems to arrive at the strangest hour of the day. For instance, the other morning I was up early and found myself watching an old Charles Laughton movie, "The Land ...

Blumhouse Productions stays in “Paranormal Activity”/“Insidious” mode with “The Darkness,” its latest slick-looking, modestly budgeted ghost-fest. From ...

If only rearranging my mind were as easy as redecorating a room. I would pick up these thoughts and place them over there where they fit better, paint the walls, donate some stuff to Bishop’s Attic ...

Get ready to feel lousy. Sure, that extra hour of sleep this Saturday night going into Sunday is something to look forward to, but how many of us actually get that extra hour of sleep? If you’re a ...

Paralyzed; bed-bound; not dressing or grooming; anxiety-wracked; sunken: welcome to major depression. (Photograph of a Milk Way black hole by Photo 12 / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The ...

The kids are not all right, according to the internet. Gen Z, and I suppose now Gen Alpha, is/are experiencing anxiety and depression at unprecedented levels. Most of this is a reasonable reaction to ...

This is the year of celestial magic. On April 8, a total eclipse of the sun rocked the continent, from Mazatlan to Indianapolis to Montreal, as millions flocked to the path of totality. One month ...

As I have a bit more time after retiring, I find that my interests in new subjects are sometimes challenged by old ones rising up for equal time. Such is the case at hand. For those of my readers over ...

Moving from a well-lit space into a dark one has always been a common experience in human lives, explains Bruno Laeng, a cognitive and visual scientist at the University of Oslo in Norway. “Driving ...