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Dan McLaughlin earns Keith Olbermann’s coveted ‘worst human being’ designation for calling out Dems’ moral hypocrisy
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The Death Dilemma: Are Hospitals Overtreating Patients Nearing the End?
Adapted from Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die © 2022 Blair Bigham. Published by House of Anansi Press as part of The Walrus Books series. Ican’t recall a time as a paramedic when I pronounced someone dead without complete confidence. Back then, it was a relatively easy decision to make.
Evolution, eugenics, psychedelics, transhumanism: The history of science and the Huxley family
“Dear Sir,” wrote a nameless correspondent to Julian Huxley in 1937. “Would you consent to being...
Nootropic Mushrooms: The Fungi That Build Better Brains
Using mushrooms as medicine isn’t new, but the field of nootropics—along with the increasingly...
Blue-eyed Buddhist
On 2 March 1901, the Buddhists of Rangoon (today’s Yangon) in Burma celebrated the full moon...
Schopenhauer’s Cross
By Nathan Knapp. One very hot afternoon during the halcyon days of the Roman Empire, as A....
“What kind of personal free will can remain when the matter is driven to tabulation and arithmetics,…”
“What kind of personal free will can remain when the matter is driven to tabulation and...
After Alexander the Great’s death, this Indian empire filled the vacuum
ByPatricia S. DanielsPublished October 4, 2022• 11 min readWhile history books are full of tales about the Roman Empire, the Spanish Empire, and China’s various dynasties, there’s precious few details about one of the world’s earliest empires—and one of history’s largest. The vast Mauryan Empire, established in 321 B.C., covered most of the Indian subcontinent
Samford University cuts ties with LGBTQ-affirming ministries amid student outcry
(RNS) — When Sarah Grace Moses enrolled as a freshman at Samford University, a Baptist school in...
Is Tesla’s New Humanoid Robot “Optimus” an AI Gamechanger?
One question for Animesh Garg, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, director of the People, AI, and Robotics group, and a senior research scientist at Nvidia whose research vision is to enable robots to seamlessly interact and collaborate with humans in novel environments. Photo courtesy of Animesh Garg Is Tesla’s new humanoid robot
Netflix’s ‘Sins of Our Mother’ is a haunting case study in spiritual psychosis
(RNS) — Where’s the line between spiritual awakening and a psychotic episode? Both are triggered...
Defending our sacred right to vote
(RNS) — One of the more frustrating aspects of our democracy is that progress is not always...
In India, where Hindu majority has complex views, Supreme Court liberalizes abortion law
(RNS) — Some three months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Americans’ constitutional right...
Poem Brut #142 – Ash Marks
By Siân Thomas. ABOUT THE AUTHORSiân Thomas is poet in residence for Ashdown Forest in Sussex, UK....
How the 1982 Tylenol Poisonings Nearly Canceled Halloween
Wednesday, September 29, 1982 was a school day, but 12-year-old Mary Kellerman woke up with a...
Will Congress support God’s children?
(RNS) — As a child, I loved the story of Jesus welcoming children to come to him when adults tried...
“They hated us. They tried to kill us”….An old joke becomes a Yom Kippur message
It is time for me to tell you – or re-tell you – one of the oldest Jewish jokes in the world. The...
Anglican Watch launches Episcopal Accountability Project
Project allows victims to name alleged perpetrators ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Employees with group medical...
On Yom Kippur, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg explains why repentance is so important
(RNS) — Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which begins Tuesday (Oct. 4), is a time when Jews beg...
Book: ‘Intimacy with God’ offers tips & advice on the power of prayer
According to The Pew Research Center, the vast majority of Americans (90%) believe in some kind of...
What if entire sectors of the economy were eliminated and the world was no worse off, and perhaps better?
Three years ago I was working as a management consultant intern at a top firm. I wore fancy suits...
Life is hard. How to respond to it intellectually and emotionally arises with fresh urgency in each generation
HAVE YOU NOTICED lately that everything is shit? Things were very shitty the year before last,...
Christians Slain in Kano and Plateau States, Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria, September 30, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Sept. 25) killed two Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria after Islamic State terrorists allegedly killed two others in the city of Kano on Saturday (Sept. 24), sources said.In northern Nigeria’s Kano state, suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province
Brilliant noise
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Seeing and somethingness
The cover of New Scientist magazine 50 years ago showed a picture of a rhesus monkey, with the...
Life is hard. How to respond to it intellectually and emotionally arises in each new generation
HAVE YOU NOTICED lately that everything is shit? Things were very shitty the year before last,...
