'How we've created a bored generation' (My Word's Worth)

If you are a parent you would have probably heard your kids reciting the refrain, 'I'm bored'. Marylaine Block suggests that society has created a culture of boredom because we have replaced our attention with entertainment. Read her essay here.

'Doubting Darwinism' (TIME Magazine)

Back in 1996, Pope John Paul II declared that 'evolution is 'more than a hypothesis'. Now, Schönborn, an Austrian cardinal who is also a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has written an essay which, he says,

aim is to clarify misinterpretations of John Paul's stance, and counter those who use Darwin to explain everything. "I believe in dogmas of faith but I don't believe in dogmas of science," he said.

Read the full story in TIME magazine here.