In 2020, amid widespread layoffs and economic turmoil brought on by the COVID pandemic, 1,000 low-income people in Texas and Illinois won something of a lottery. They were selected to receive $1,000 per month—with no strings attached—for three years as part of a study on guaranteed income by OpenResearch, a nonprofit research organization funded in… Continue reading Basic Income Gives Money without Strings. Here’s How People Spend It
The Confidence Man in American Politics
Former Congressman George Santos pled guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft on Monday in Federal District Court in New York to avoid his trial scheduled for next month. He faced 23 counts, including multiple charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and making materially false statements. Santos has repeatedly lied about his past, claiming… Continue reading The Confidence Man in American Politics
Waning Dark Energy May Evade ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes
At the time, the work seemed to conflict with what physicists thought they knew about the universe, with its presumed cosmological constant. And some string theorists still argue that stable universes with positive cosmological constants can exist in string theory; one attempt at constructing such a solution appeared earlier this month. Nevertheless, in light of… Continue reading Waning Dark Energy May Evade ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes
If Trump Were to Pull the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement Again, It Will Be Much Harder to Rejoin
CLIMATEWIRE | Donald Trump pulled America out of the Paris climate agreement once. But while his loud condemnations of the deal drew rebukes from world leaders, the withdrawal itself resulted in ripples rather than tidal waves for the landmark agreement. It could be different if Trump is elected this year. That’s because the terms of… Continue reading If Trump Were to Pull the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement Again, It Will Be Much Harder to Rejoin
Remote Viewing Experiment! (Outbounder Protocol)
Podcast: Download MYS326: We’ve talked about remote viewing, but now Jimmy Akin has taken part in a remote viewing experiment and discusses his experience with Dom Bettinelli. What was his role? What did the study do? And what were the results? Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this… Continue reading Remote Viewing Experiment! (Outbounder Protocol)
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About ‘Extremal’ Black Holes
To understand the universe, scientists look to its outliers. “You always want to know about the extreme cases — the special cases that lie at the edge,” said Carsten Gundlach, a mathematical physicist at the University of Southampton. Black holes are the enigmatic extremes of the cosmos. Within them, matter is packed so tightly that,… Continue reading Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About ‘Extremal’ Black Holes
Vo-Tech Education Is Taking Off, and It’s Not Your Dad’s Shop Class Anymore
Above, Jordan Kerger, an aviation graduate of Ignite Pathways in Iowa. It’s a “career and technical education” school that exemplifies growing national demand for non-college-oriented public education. By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsAugust 22, 2024 Jon Graft is on a mission to reignite the passion for learning by pushing a long-denigrated classroom practice: vocational education. Jon Graft,… Continue reading Vo-Tech Education Is Taking Off, and It’s Not Your Dad’s Shop Class Anymore
How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
The hallmark feature of ternary notation is that it’s ruthlessly efficient. With two binary bits, you can represent four numbers. Two “trits” — each with three different states — allow you to represent nine different numbers. A number that requires 42 bits would need only 27 trits. If a three-state system is so efficient, you… Continue reading How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
The Leftwing Judicial Ethics Crisis No One Is Talking About
The climate cartel is stooping to a new low, adding judicial corruption to its list of tactics. A deceptive and well-funded campaign is underway to corruptly influence judges presiding over dozens of climate change lawsuits now before many state courts. While the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) presents itself as a neutral entity,… Continue reading The Leftwing Judicial Ethics Crisis No One Is Talking About
The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein’s Relativity Problem
After Albert Einstein published his special theory of relativity in 1905, he spent the next decade trying to come up with a theory of gravity. But for years, he kept running up against a problem. He wanted to show that gravity is really a warping of the geometry of space-time caused by the presence of… Continue reading The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein’s Relativity Problem