Years ago, people were already worried about spending too much time online. Back in 1996, a teenager was described as being addicted to the internet because he spent more than six hours a day online and over an hour reading email. At that time, it sounded alarming. Today, for many people, that almost sounds ordinary. We live in a very different world now. The phone is always near. The screen is always glowing. Messages keep coming. News keeps updating. Videos keep playing. Ou

It sounds completely counterintuitive, but solar panels actually perform better in cooler temperatures than in blazing heat. Like most electronic devices, solar panels become less efficient as they get hot. A crisp, sunny winter day can actually produce energy more efficiently than a suffocatingly hot afternoon in the desert. Many times, we think we will be strongest when life is easy, warm, and comfortable. We think we will have more faith when everything is going well, when

It's #SiblingSaturday! I grew up in Armenia during the early 1990s, when the country was passing through painful and difficult days. Life was not easy. Even among young boys, the hardship of those days sometimes showed itself in tension between neighborhoods. One winter day, my brother Arsen and I were walking through the snow on our way to judo practice. Along the way, we met some boys from another neighborhood, and suddenly a fight broke out. At one point, I fell into the s