By keeping the focus on better health for real people, perhaps we’ll develop both the humility to recognize how little we still understand as well as the drive to ensure — and emphatically demand — that our advances ultimately wind up not only in papers, but also in patients.

Ed Begley Jr.'s book Living Like Ed illustrates the sacrifices inherent in eco-friendly living.

Just as with Horton, the people in our policy debates who spend their time pointing to the not seen, are often ridiculed, slandered, and disrespected. Bastiat observed that when government goes beyond referring free-enterprise to actively interfering with it, the consequences fall into two categories: what is seen, and what is not seen.

Energy discussions must start with a realization that abundant, affordable energy is not discretionary, it is a necessary element for the maintenance of technological civilization.

Terrorist attacks over the last decades follow a power-law distribution, which anticipates future terrorist events with ever broader effects.