Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.