Humanity
Are Céline’s long-lost manuscripts “the greatest literary discovery ever” — or an anti-Semitic bomb waiting to go off?
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Pope Francis, Emeritus Pope among group administered third dose of Covid-19 vaccine
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI likely received the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in October, according to official Vatican reports. A statement sent to Vatican journalists on Wednesday confirmed that “in the second half of October the Directorate of Health and Hygiene of Vatican City began to administer…
The methods of connection between author and reader are increasingly owned by Amazon. But ownership does not constitute possession
It is the hour for despair. The writer sits, crumpled and waiting. The sun sets. He lays his head...
Plants May Help Make Your Surroundings Quieter
Trying to sleep on a noisy street amidst blaring car alarms and crunching construction machinery is, in a word, terrible. So is trying to work, relax, or spend time with loved ones — which is why the World Health Organization first declared noise to be a pollutant back in 1972. And beyond banning leaf blowers,…
Sea levels rise, oceans warm, and C02 builds up in the atmosphere — a physicist takes on our harrowing climate future
The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence Krauss Post Hill Press, 208 pp., $27.39. If physicists...
Book explores how a diverse Jewish neighborhood responded to a horrific hate crime
(RNS) — The three-year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood...
Milosz in Berkeley. The Polish-Lithuanian poet’s seriousness was at odds with the divine madness of the times
Czesław Miłosz, one of the greatest poets and thinkers of the past hundred years, is not generally...
A look back at the history of US presidential visits to the Vatican
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On Friday (Oct. 29), Pope Francis is set to hold a highly anticipated private...
Biden sued over reversal of Trump-era abortion referral ban
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s top lawyer filed suit against the Biden administration on Monday...
NASA Invites Media to Learn About S-MODE Mission
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 29 to share information about the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE), a campaign to study small ocean whirlpools, eddies, and currents…
Eastern Orthodox patriarch meets with Biden, discusses climate change
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The spiritual head of Eastern Orthodox Christians called on religious and...
Milosz in Berkeley. The Polish-Lithuanian poet’s seriousness was at odds with the divine madness of the times
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Revealing the truth about the Catholic Church’s clergy abuse scandals
Bill Donohue exposes massive campaigns to discredit and destroy the Catholic Church SAN FRANCISCO — Are the clergy abuse scandals worse than similar scandals that occur with major media outlets, other Christian churches, the Boy Scouts and public schools? Bill Donohue writes in the new book THE TRUTH ABOUT CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE (Ignatius Press) that no,…
What Was the Curse of the Bambino—and How Was Baseball’s Greatest Hex Broken?
Before gaining his greatest fame with the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth was a star with the rival...
10 World Engineering Marvels
For thousands of years, mankind has engineered remarkable structures such as the pyramids of Egypt...
‘CNN’s owner speaks’: After Ron DeSantis hurts Brian Stelter’s feelings, Nick Sandmann stops by to finish the job
Earlier today, CNN’s Brian Stelter complained that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis practically embodies the “GOP’s anti-media streak” in suggesting that the corporate media aren’t being honest with viewers.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a regular on “corporate media” shows like Maria Bartiromo’s, says “we all know corporate media lies, OK? They do not tell the truth. Assume…
New Poll Says 30 Percent of Young Christians Identify as LGBTQ, Some Are Questioning the Results
A column for Relevant Magazine points out that a recently released Newsweek poll about young Christians identifying as LGBTQ needs to be taken “with a huge grain of salt.”Tyler Huckabee writes in the column that while “societal ideas around sex and gender are changing,” the Newsweek poll, which says that nearly 40 percent of Generation Z…
What Stress Does to the Immune System
When we’re stressed out, our body’s internal chemistry changes. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone alongside adrenaline and norepinephrine, surges. As a result, blood sugar levels increase and more of that glucose is allocated to the brain.That’s good — the chain reaction helps our bodies in the so-called “fight-or-flight” response, which has a deep evolutionary history…
Survey: One-third of Jewish college students have experienced antisemitism
(RNS) — A new survey of antisemitism on university campuses finds that one-third of Jewish...
Poem Brut #125 – A Journal of the Plague Year
By Aryan Kaganof. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Aryan Kaganof is curator and editor of the online cultural...
The field trip
SaveJA BizTown is an elementary school programme in the United States that prepares children for...
Hegel today
To an unusual degree among the great philosophers, G W F Hegel’s influence has waxed and waned. At...
Mi?osz in Berkeley. The Polish-Lithuanian poet’s seriousness was at odds with the divine madness of the times
Czesław Miłosz, one of the greatest poets and thinkers of the past hundred years, is not generally...
The Crime of Passion That Led to Babe Ruth’s Epic World Series Home Run
Babe Ruth’s called shot in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series remains one of the most famous home...
The Transcontinental Railroad’s Dark Costs: Exploited Labor, Stolen Lands
Construction on the Transcontinental Railroad began on January 8, 1863 in Sacramento, when workers...
Parenthesized Latin
By Jonathan Dunk. SUNDAY 27th. Winds from W to EBW. Fog. Reefing from an Arras of mist sixty...
