When President Biden’s supporters attacked him for describing the man who allegedly murdered Georgia co-ed Laken Reilly as an “illegal,” they shined a light on one of the most contested words in American politics. Laken Riley: High-profile victim. Wikipedia The progressive push to describe border crossers as undocumented or unauthorized can also serve to downplay… Continue reading The Many Ways a Porous Border Means Crime Without Boundaries
How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
Your grade school teacher probably didn’t show you how to add 20-digit numbers. But if you know how to add smaller numbers, all you need is paper and pencil and a bit of patience. Start with the ones place and work leftward step by step, and soon you’ll be stacking up quintillions with ease. Problems… Continue reading How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute
The Modern Public Nuisance Movement Is a Growing Threat
The Left is running a full-scale effort to reshape consumers’ lives using every tool at their disposal, be that through regulations, product bans, or ideological lawsuits. A key part of this campaign is public nuisance lawsuits that seek to impose billions of dollars in liability on disfavored industries for “causing” amorphous, nationwide (or worldwide) problems… Continue reading The Modern Public Nuisance Movement Is a Growing Threat
A ‘Havana Syndrome’ Investigation in Congress Rests on Politics, Not Science
A ‘Havana Syndrome’ Investigation in Congress Rests on Politics, Not Science Lawmakers should look in the mirror if they want answers to who hyped dubious reports of Havana syndrome. Instead they are investigating the spy agencies telling them the truth about the mystery By Robert Bartholomew Cuban Flags fly in front of American Embassy. Credit:… Continue reading A ‘Havana Syndrome’ Investigation in Congress Rests on Politics, Not Science
Pregnancy and Childbirth Reshape the Brain in Profound, Sometimes Lasting Ways
How Pregnancy Changes the Brain A study of more than 100 new parents showed that pregnancy and birth cause changes in brain circuits that may be involved in empathy and bonding with the child By Gina Jiménez Credit: Cavan Images/Getty Images Being pregnant and giving birth changes a person’s brain, but the brain looks different… Continue reading Pregnancy and Childbirth Reshape the Brain in Profound, Sometimes Lasting Ways
Ancient Malaria Genome from Roman Skeleton Hints at Disease’s History
Ancient Malaria Genome from Roman Skeleton Hints at Disease’s History Genetic information from ancient Roman remains is helping to reveal how malaria has moved and evolved alongside people By Tosin Thompson & Nature magazine Malaria, an endemic disease caused by hematozoic parasites (Plasmodium falciparum) transmitted by the blood to humans through the bite of the… Continue reading Ancient Malaria Genome from Roman Skeleton Hints at Disease’s History
AA-1025 (Communist Infiltration in the Church)
Podcast: Download MYS303: In 1972, a book purported to tell the tale of a Communist infiltrator at the Vatican dedicated to bringing down the Church. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss who this mysterious agent was, where he came from, and whether he really did what the books says. Get all new episodes automatically and… Continue reading AA-1025 (Communist Infiltration in the Church)
Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been
Say you’re at a party with nine other people and everyone shakes everyone else’s hand exactly once. How many handshakes take place? This is the “handshake problem,” and it’s one of my favorites. As a math teacher, I love it because there are so many different ways you can arrive at the solution, and the… Continue reading Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been
Give Me an Engaged Electorate
On March 23rd in 1775, Patrick Henry rose at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, to urge his countrymen to arm themselves for the Revolutionary War. Four weeks before the battle of Lexington and Concord, Henry saw the future: “The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of… Continue reading Give Me an Engaged Electorate
Astronomers Are Snapping Baby Pictures of Planets by the Dozen
Astronomers Are Snapping Baby Pictures of Planets by the Dozen Snapshots of a plethora of planet-forming disks offer more than just eye candy—they also reveal some fundamental aspects of how worlds are born By Phil Plait Dust swirls around the MWC 758 planet-forming disk, located about 500 light-years away from Earth in the Taurus region,… Continue reading Astronomers Are Snapping Baby Pictures of Planets by the Dozen