Podcast: Download MYS253: It’s time for another set of weird questions posed by Cy Kellet of Catholic Answers to Jimmy Akin, including this time: whether time travel interferes with God’s plans; could an alien 2,000 light years away see Jesus on Earth; the origin of coal and the Great Flood; ghost hunting TV shows; and… Continue reading Vampire Suicide and More Weird Questions
The U.S. Still Calls the Shots Over OPEC, But Few Know Why
The price of a barrel of oil was around $25 when the 21st century began, and had been as low as $10 in 1998. In the 1980s, oil more than once dipped to $8/barrel. Stop and think about those prices for a second, and ask yourself what happened. And in asking yourself what happened, consider… Continue reading The U.S. Still Calls the Shots Over OPEC, But Few Know Why
Sandcastle Engineering: A Geotechnical Engineer Explains How Water, Air and Sand Create Solid Structures
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it helps to have a background in geotechnical engineering. As a geotechnical engineering educator myself, I use sandcastles… Continue reading Sandcastle Engineering: A Geotechnical Engineer Explains How Water, Air and Sand Create Solid Structures
Singularity of Focus – SpiritualDirection.com
Today salvation has come to this house. (Luke 19:9) The time has arrived; Holy Week begins. For too many years I merely saw Easter as a relief from fasting and abstaining while I rushed to the freezer to thaw out my favorite chocolate candies! But as the Holy Spirit opens the eyes of the soul… Continue reading Singularity of Focus – SpiritualDirection.com
Culling Of Spanish ‘Zombies’ Sends European Bankruptcies Soaring To 8-Year-Highs
Q4 2022 saw European businesses filing for bankruptcy at the fastest pace in at least eight years The number of bankruptcy declarations increased during all four quarters of 2022. As The FT reports, there was a particularly sharp increase in Spanish bankruptcy filings, which more than doubled in the second half of last year after… Continue reading Culling Of Spanish ‘Zombies’ Sends European Bankruptcies Soaring To 8-Year-Highs
Rainmaker Charles Hatfield (San Diego Flood!)
Podcast: Download MYS242: In 1915, during a particularly bad drought, San Diego hired rainmaker Charles Hatfield, who gave them more than they bargained for. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli get to know Hatfield, how he tried to make it rain, and what happened in San Diego. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow… Continue reading Rainmaker Charles Hatfield (San Diego Flood!)
Astronomers Reveal New Details of How Stars Devour Planets
Astronomers have been witnessing the ends of worlds for millennia. Even in antiquity, sky watchers noted the rare star suddenly bursting into brightness and then fading away over months or years. These outbursts are supernovae, explosive stellar deaths that can also annihilate a star’s accompanying planets. Today modern researchers can see black holes shredding entire… Continue reading Astronomers Reveal New Details of How Stars Devour Planets
Keeping Teachers of Color in the Classroom Will Take More Than a Pay Raise
The U.S. teaching workforce is far less racially diverse than its student body. All students (PDF)—but particularly Black and Latinx students—benefit academically and socially from having teachers who are people of color. And yet, such educators leave the profession (PDF) at higher rates than their White colleagues. So what can be done to get more… Continue reading Keeping Teachers of Color in the Classroom Will Take More Than a Pay Raise
The Best Thing That Ever Happened
Suppose someone asked you, “What’s the worst thing that ever happened in all of history?” There’s no shortage of potential answers. You might say, “the Holocaust“ or “World War II.“ If you consider the question from the Christian perspective, you’d probably agree, right away, that the worst thing that ever happened was the Passion and… Continue reading The Best Thing That Ever Happened
‘ISIS Bride’ Shamima Begum Bid To Restore British Citizenship Rejected
Authored by Patricia Devlin via The Epoch Times, Shamima Begum failed in a last-ditch legal bid to have her British citizenship restored. On Wednesday, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) fully dismissed the 23-year-old’s legal challenge against a Home Office decision to revoke her status as a UK citizen. It means Begum—who travelled from her London home to join… Continue reading ‘ISIS Bride’ Shamima Begum Bid To Restore British Citizenship Rejected