Speaking with the Dead? (Visions, Apparitions, Saints, Spirits, Ghosts, Prayer, Intercession, Mediums, Seances, Necromancy)

Podcast: Download MYS270: Can we speak with the dead? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the question of speaking with departed human souls; whether it is permitted by Church teaching; and what cautions we must consider; and they ask if Fr. Nathan Castle’s unique ministry to “stuck souls” is permissible. Get all new episodes… Continue reading Speaking with the Dead? (Visions, Apparitions, Saints, Spirits, Ghosts, Prayer, Intercession, Mediums, Seances, Necromancy)

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This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body

One morning in December 2004, elders and children were wandering on the shore of Strait Island in the Bay of Bengal when one of them noticed something odd. The sea level was low, and weird-looking creatures that normally inhabit the deep twilight zone of the ocean were bobbing near the water’s surface. “Sare ukkuburuko!”—the sea… Continue reading This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body

AI Chatbots Could Help Provide Therapy, but Caution Is Needed

On Reddit forums, many users discussing mental health have enthused about their interactions with ChatGPT—OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot, which conducts humanlike conversations by predicting the likely next word in a sentence. “ChatGPT is better than my therapist,” one user wrote, adding that the program listened and responded as the person talked about their struggles with… Continue reading AI Chatbots Could Help Provide Therapy, but Caution Is Needed

Deception by Redaction: More FBI FISA Abuses, This Time Using Fake News in the Washington Post

By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsAugust 1, 2023 The FBI’s efforts to mislead a federal court in order to wiretap an adviser to the Trump campaign were more extensive than previously reported, according to classified documents described to RealClearInvestigations. John Durham, special counsel: The FISA abuse that got away. AP The embattled bureau tried to hide its… Continue reading Deception by Redaction: More FBI FISA Abuses, This Time Using Fake News in the Washington Post

New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize

Melody and Silence In the early 1990s, together with his student Shinya Watanabe, Strogatz showed that Kuramoto’s solution was not only possible, but all but inevitable, even for a finite number of oscillators. In 2011, Richard Taylor of the Australian Defense Science and Technology Organization chipped away at Kuramoto’s requirement that the graph be complete. He… Continue reading New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize

A New Therapy for Multiple Personality Disorder Helps a Woman with 12 Selves

When Ella time traveled in my office for the first time, I did not realize what was happening right away. She was sitting comfortably in a chair, her hands folded, her back straight and her feet flat on the floor. There was no dramatic change, no shuddering or twitching. But then I saw it: a… Continue reading A New Therapy for Multiple Personality Disorder Helps a Woman with 12 Selves

How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions

“The Hubble tension has lasted a decade so far because it is a hard problem,” said Adam Riess, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University who uses supernovas to estimate the Hubble constant. “The obvious issues have been checked and the data has improved, so the dilemma deepens.” Now, the hope is that studying nearly nothing… Continue reading How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions

Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis

Their findings are “the most detailed example to date” of what happens to the brain of an insect undergoing metamorphosis, said Deniz Erezyilmaz, a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Oxford’s Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior who used to work in Truman’s lab but wasn’t involved in this work. The results may apply… Continue reading Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis