Christopher Michel

Create a cottage garden look with fragrant flowers

The world of Buddhist scholarship has lost one of its most influential voices. Robert Thurman, the pioneering scholar, author, father of actor Uma Thurman, and advocate for Tibetan Buddhism, died yesterday in Woodstock, New York. He was 84.

Being the start of summer, June is already a great time to relax and kick back, maybe head out to a lake or have a picnic in the park.

I started reading Om in 2004 as a young tech reporter. He was the smartest guy writing about really geeky tech and putting it into context. He was able to discuss the nuts and bolts of technology and then extrapolate what new advances would mean and how people would react. All from a news release about a new type of fiber or a boost in Ethernet speeds. As someone bored with the speeds and feeds of trade tech journalism, I studied his writing to learn how to make those same connections. I’ve spent 25 years as a journalist and I’ve never been able to make the leap that Om did — writing effortlessly about how tech advances affected people in a way that connected with everyone.

Celebrate the height of summer (and America's birthday) with a crowd-pleasing drink.

Chicken salad is one of those classic dishes that deserves a whole lot more respect than it gets.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is stepping straight into the federal UFO hot seat, tapped to chair a new U.S. scientific advisory council that will

Omar M. Yaghi, the Nobel Prize-winning materials chemist who has long been a star at UC Berkeley, is leaving town for a full-time role at Tsinghua

Cracked tomatoes. Blossom-end rot. Fruit that tastes watery instead of sweet. Many of the biggest tomato-growing frustrations actually start with one simple mistake: inconsistent watering.

Cracked tomatoes, blossom-end rot, and bland fruit often start with one simple watering mistake.