In just 17 years messenger RNA therapies have gone from proof of concept to global salvation. The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for COVID-19 have been given to hundreds of millions of people, saving countless lives. In 2005 Katalin Karikó and I created a way to make mRNA molecules that would not cause dangerous inflammation when… Continue reading Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise
The Thirteenth Amendment Doesn’t Provide Basis for National Abortion Protection
After Dobbs, where can pro-choice advocates look in the Constitution to support abortion? One professor believes she has found the answer in the Thirteenth Amendment, the provision banning slavery that was ratified in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. Lisa Crooms-Robinson, a professor at Howard University School of Law, reasons out of a wish… Continue reading The Thirteenth Amendment Doesn’t Provide Basis for National Abortion Protection
Exorcist Diary: The 3 Rs for Casting Out Demons
“He turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan!’” Mt 16:23 After a recent online deliverance session with us, a woman shared her experience: I’ve been able to attend most of the sessions and have found that with each successive one, I have been increasingly able to gain spiritual healing. For many years, I have… Continue reading Exorcist Diary: The 3 Rs for Casting Out Demons
These Are The World’s Top 10 Restaurants In 2022
This year’s edition of ‘The World’s 50 Best Restaurants‘ by publishing group William Reed Business Media has just been released. As Statista’s Anna Fleck notes, the ranking is one of the most highly anticipated events of the culinary calendar. The so-called “Oscars of gastronomy” have named the Danish restaurant Geranium as the top restaurant in… Continue reading These Are The World’s Top 10 Restaurants In 2022
The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
The prints are also helping us to distinguish different types of substructures. For instance, if you’re looking at a filament in two spatial dimensions, it might actually be a two-dimensional sheet that you’re just looking at on its side. And that’s hard to make out in a flat picture — or even a computer simulation.… Continue reading The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
Stock Market Overview – August 1, 2022
Following Thursday’s GDP print of -0.9%, the US is in a recession by the standard definition of two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. The stock market, however, is unbothered, rallying on the news. The “official” forecasts for Q2 GDP were -0.5%, while it came in at -0.9%. That the market rallied on this tells me… Continue reading Stock Market Overview – August 1, 2022
Amid Recession Fears, Economically Free States Continue to Outperform
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently responded to questions about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ads airing in Florida, “It’s almost hard to drive people out of a place like California given all their natural advantages, and yet they are finding a way to do it.” He noted that California is hemorrhaging its population because of bad… Continue reading Amid Recession Fears, Economically Free States Continue to Outperform
They Can’t Let Him Back In
Authored by Michael Anton via CompactMag.com, The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again. In fact, they made this clear in 2020, in a series of public statements. Simply for quoting their… Continue reading They Can’t Let Him Back In
Are You a Naïve Realist?
When Lee Ross, a professor of psychology at Stanford, explained to his students what his term “fundamental attribution error” meant, he loved to quote George Carlin. “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” The late comedian perfectly captured our tendency… Continue reading Are You a Naïve Realist?
Maryland Governor Loosens Concealed Carry Law, Spurs Demand For Gun Permits
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan relaxed the state’s rules for obtaining a concealed handgun permit following the U.S. Supreme Court decision. The action spurred a surge in Marylanders seeking concealed carry classes — with some gun stores that offer firearms training saying classes are booked for the rest of the year. On Tuesday, Hogan directed the… Continue reading Maryland Governor Loosens Concealed Carry Law, Spurs Demand For Gun Permits