“We the... senior members of the world’s scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it, is required, if vast human...

As a writer, you are taught to play to your audience; to identify your readers and then appeal to them emotionally and logically. In October of 2015, REI, which defines itself as a purpose-led outdoor...

The motto of the United States National Park Service, “Experience your America,” captures the spirit of the act signed on March 1, 1872, in which Congress declared Yellowstone National Park “a public...

Trigger Warning: This article discusses the sensitive topic of sexual violence in our society. Since Harvey Weinstein was outed as a sexual predator, allegations of sexual abuse have surfaced about...

It is Thanksgiving 2006 and I am clutching a single page of printed type in one hand and a worn pink blanket in the other. I look down at the paper I am holding. I know all the words, but it feels good...

Utah has the greatest snow on Earth. The repetition of this phrase in my childhood and my own personal experience playing in the powder, has turned this tourism motto into one of my core beliefs. I learned...

There is a meme which reads in part, “Things I never learned in high school: how to do taxes or how to apply for a job… but thank goodness I can use the Pythagorean Theorem.”  While I can argue...

I have seen signs supporting the designation; some are stuck in parking strips, others are propped up in bay windows and, once, I saw one taped to the back of a beat-up Toyota Corolla. Printed in bold,...

Patrick Soon-Shiong was hailed as a patron of scientific discovery when he visited the University of Utah in the fall of 2014 after donating $12 million to research on campus. But now, almost three...

I was in first grade when my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. I can remember watching from the doorway as my uncle took the razor and shaved my grandmother’s head. Often in movies, this...