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
‘Abortions by Email’ and Other Bombshells From the FDA
The latest hearing in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA (the FDA abortion pill case) proved to be the fiercest yet. Arguments were heard at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals over the FDA’s alleged failure to safeguard women and girls against the abortion pill, mifepristone. What was assumed would be a rehashing of facts already heard in court in March turned out to be a sharp exchange between… Continue reading ‘Abortions by Email’ and Other Bombshells From the FDA
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
During fleeting fits, the sun occasionally hurls a colossal amount of energy into space. Called solar flares, these eruptions last for mere minutes, and they can trigger catastrophic blackouts and dazzling auroras on Earth. But our leading mathematical theories of how these flares work fail to predict the strength and speed of what we observe.… Continue reading The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
A Proposal to Change Medical Training Will Affect Autism Care
In the U.S., almost 20 percent of children have developmental delays, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, learning disabilities or speech and language disorders. These disorders are usually diagnosed in childhood and have specific and time-intensive treatments based on severity. The prevalence of some of these disorders is rising, including autism. The Centers for Disease… Continue reading A Proposal to Change Medical Training Will Affect Autism Care
21st Century Poltergeist! (Psychokinesis? Telekinesis? Ghosts?)
Podcast: Download MYS260: In 2013, an 11-year-old by was having an inexplicable effect on electronic devices around him, including poltergeist activity. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli interview John G. Kruth who was called in to investigate and dubbed the case the “21st century poltergeist.” Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email… Continue reading 21st Century Poltergeist! (Psychokinesis? Telekinesis? Ghosts?)
New Math Shows When Solar Systems Become Unstable
Now, in three papers that together exceed 150 pages, Guàrdia and two collaborators have proved for the first time that instability inevitably arises in a model of planets orbiting a sun. “The result is really very spectacular,” said Gabriella Pinzari, a mathematical physicist at the University of Padua in Italy. “The authors proved a theorem… Continue reading New Math Shows When Solar Systems Become Unstable
What the Holy Spirit Does for Us on Pentecost
Pentecot is one of the three major feast of the Church’s liturgical calendar in that it is next to Easter and before Christmas in prominence. Fifty days after Easter and ten days after Jesus ascended into heaven, now the Father and Son send the Holy Spirit, who descends in tongues of fire (Acts 2) and… Continue reading What the Holy Spirit Does for Us on Pentecost