Podcast: Download MYS337: The Virgin Mary has reportedly been appearing to 6 young people in Medjugorgje in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1981. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli begin a 3-part look at what is happening, the Vatican’s long-awaited decision on the phenomena, and whether the apparitions are genuinely supernatural. Get all new episodes automatically and for free:… Continue reading The Mystery of Medjugorje
Project 2025’s Blueprint for a Second Trump Presidency Spells Out How to Harm U.S. Science
Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind of U.S. presidency, would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, technology and education. It would impose religious and conservative ideology on the federal civil service to such an extent that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has, dubiously, tried… Continue reading Project 2025’s Blueprint for a Second Trump Presidency Spells Out How to Harm U.S. Science
What Do I See In a Republican Victory?
The Republican Party reveals itself as a national middle-class party. A party that is friendly to earned success and those in need looking for a hand up. A party where the middle, bottom, and top are not divided and play a zero-sum game but are instead united in the pursuit and possession of the ever-optimistic… Continue reading What Do I See In a Republican Victory?
How SpaceX Will Turn a Workhorse Vehicle into a Hulking Destroyer of Space Stations
How SpaceX Will Turn a Workhorse Vehicle into a Hulking Destroyer of Space Stations SpaceX will supercharge its Dragon capsule to send the International Space Station to a watery retirement By Meghan Bartels In just a handful of years, a beefed-up version of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will launch on a unique mission to safely destroy… Continue reading How SpaceX Will Turn a Workhorse Vehicle into a Hulking Destroyer of Space Stations
Save Yourselves. Vote for Donald Trump
Voters across the pond are quickly realizing what a massive mistake they made by electing Sir Keir Starmer’s far-left, Labour government in the United Kingdom. America, you cannot afford to follow suit. It’s only been three months since the left-wing Labour government took over from the corrupted ‘Conservative’ party and already taxes are soaring, crime… Continue reading Save Yourselves. Vote for Donald Trump
It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All
Einstein proposed a solution in 1905: A wave of light is made of many discrete units called “quanta,” each with energy related to the wave’s frequency. The higher the frequency of the wave, the more energetic its quanta. And the brighter the wave, the more quanta there are. If you try to start an electric… Continue reading It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All
The Renaissance of Civic Education
Over the last 60 years, there has been unconscionable neglect of civics and American history at both the K-12 and university levels. Surveys by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) show that fewer than 20% of colleges nationwide require an American history or government course for graduation. Unsurprisingly, this deficit has made its… Continue reading The Renaissance of Civic Education
How Tornado Science Has Changed between Twister and Twisters
Between Twister and Twisters, Tornado Science Has Improved a Lot in Three Decades Three decades of tornado science research is now at play in the new summer flick Twisters By Max Springer Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as their characters Jo and Bill Harding in the 1996 movie Twister. Universal Pictures/Maximum Film/Alamy Stock Photo “Dorothy”… Continue reading How Tornado Science Has Changed between Twister and Twisters
Bob Casey No Longer Represents Pennsylvanians
As you may have learned in school, if you put a frog in boiling water, the frog will leap out. But, if you put the frog in room-temperature water, and slowly raise the heat over time, the frog will eventually be boiled. The frog may not even notice it. He just grows more and more… Continue reading Bob Casey No Longer Represents Pennsylvanians
How Heat Combined with Hurricane Beryl to Cause Misery in Houston
CLIMATEWIRE | HOUSTON — At first, Annette Villeda tried to wait out the heat. Hurricane Beryl had knocked out her power, along with 2 million other residents of southeast Texas. Which meant no lights, no electricity and, worst of all, no air conditioning. But when hours without cool air turned into days, Villeda decided to… Continue reading How Heat Combined with Hurricane Beryl to Cause Misery in Houston