The proper name for this week’s artifact is actually “čhaŋnúŋpa” (pronounced chanunpah, which means “sacred pipe” in Lakota. A more common spelling is “canunpa." Such pipes are highly personal, and ...

I am not a high tech guy. Ask anyone who knows me. I like technology. I respect modern whiz-bang innovation but, personally, I’m very slow to adopt anything newer than about 1965. In many ways I’m ...

In the last 30 years, thousands of Massachusetts beachgoers have made recreational sacrifices — some voluntary, some coerced — to help bring back the piping plovers from the brink of extinction. Those ...