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Out on Private American Patrols in the Smuggler-Blighted Border Badlands of Arizona
Editor’s note: This article is a collaboration between RealClearInvestigations and Soldier of Fortune magazine, with Heath Hansen of SOF on the border. CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST, Ariz. – As blazing sunlight ebbs to a star-studded sky along the U.S.-Mexico border, members of the Arizona Border Recon group peer through field glasses at a trio of men… Continue reading Out on Private American Patrols in the Smuggler-Blighted Border Badlands of Arizona
The Bad Side of ‘Good’ Cholesterol
Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to Your Health, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! Josh Fischman: On this show, we highlight the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind. Every episode, we dive into one topic. We discuss diseases, treatments, and some controversies. Lewis: And we demystify the medical research… Continue reading The Bad Side of ‘Good’ Cholesterol
Biden White House Uses Fuzzy Math to Tout ‘Nearly 20%’ Federal Union Growth
… combining with the No. 2 union for a membership increase of just 0.6%. nteu.org “Unless you’ve got some minor unions doubling or more their membership while nothing similar is happening with the largest unions,” Sherk said, “there’s just no way to make the math work.” RCI asked the Office of Personnel Management, which… Continue reading Biden White House Uses Fuzzy Math to Tout ‘Nearly 20%’ Federal Union Growth
How 3D Changes in the Genome Turned Sharks Into Skates
The marine creatures called skates skim along the sea bottom, rippling their winglike pectoral fins to propel themselves and to stir up small creatures hiding in the sand. Their unusual flattened body plan makes them one of the oddest families of fish in the sea, and it seems even odder that they evolved from streamlined,… Continue reading How 3D Changes in the Genome Turned Sharks Into Skates
The Eyes of the Heart: On Authentic Christian Prayer
Pentecost is upon us with its emphasis on the Holy Spirit’s action in the world. But what about His action in my heart? As the soul comes to know its Creator, its eyes open little by little to knowing and understanding as God knows and understands. For those who have accepted and are living the… Continue reading The Eyes of the Heart: On Authentic Christian Prayer
Combating The Censorship Industrial Complex
It’s been nearly six months since the first installment of the Twitter Files—the journalistic effort by Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and many others to expose the myriad channels by which the U.S government cooperated with Twitter on content moderation and censorship—was first published. Twitter Files One, perhaps the mildest of more… Continue reading Combating The Censorship Industrial Complex
Deadly African Drought Wouldn’t Have Happened without Climate Change
Year after year after year the life-sustaining seasonal rains in the Horn of Africa have simply failed to fall. Heat has scorched the soils dry. Crops have shriveled up. Millions of livestock have died. Millions of people face severe food shortages, and several hundred thousand are on the verge of starving to death. Though the… Continue reading Deadly African Drought Wouldn’t Have Happened without Climate Change
Our Blessed Mother – SpiritualDirection.com
There is much to marvel at in God’s creation, but the bond between mother and child is chief among them. In marriage, the two become one flesh. In motherhood, what begins as one flesh proceeds, through a nurturing and protective process, as a new being that grows into full maturity. The process of pregnancy and… Continue reading Our Blessed Mother – SpiritualDirection.com
Physicists See ‘Strange Matter’ Form inside Atomic Nuclei
A new physics result two decades in the making has found a surprisingly complex path for the production of strange matter within atoms. Strange matter is any matter containing the subatomic particles known as strange quarks. “Strange” here refers, in part, to a profound remoteness from our everyday lives: strange matter only seems to show… Continue reading Physicists See ‘Strange Matter’ Form inside Atomic Nuclei