A recent entry in the visitor’s book of the James Joyce Tower & Museum in Sandycove, Dublin, perplexed the Friends of Joyce’s Tower, the volunteers who run the museum. The entry, reproduced as the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Tristan writes, “As the movie ‘Pi’ has now so clichely put it, “Numbers are the language of nature.” As a physicist, I always felt this was one of the most beautiful sentences in that language — a ...