Podcast: Download MYS269: Suppose you had a dream of a stranger who died and is calling out to you for help from the afterlife? This is the situation that confronted Fr. Nathan Castle. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk to Fr. Castle about how he began receiving these dreams and what he has done about… Continue reading Helping Stuck Souls! (Purgatory, Fr. Nathan Castle, OP)
Does Nothingness Exist? | Quanta Magazine
Aristotle argued almost 2,400 years ago that a perfect vacuum could never exist. Today, the concept of nothingness figures at least implicitly into almost every theory of modern physics. In this episode closing out season 2 of “The Joy of Why,” the theoretical physicist Isabel Garcia Garcia of New York University and the Institute for… Continue reading Does Nothingness Exist? | Quanta Magazine
Conservatives Fight Secretive Biden Voting Order as ‘Bidenbucks’ — Federal ‘Zuckbucks’ on Steroids
“I’m tired of being quiet!” Biden said in Atlanta in January 2022, pounding the podium impatiently pushing “voting rights.” But his administration is largely silent on how his executive order on voting is being implemented. And critics think it’s illegal. By Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigationsJuly 26, 2023 GOP lawmakers and other conservative critics are working to… Continue reading Conservatives Fight Secretive Biden Voting Order as ‘Bidenbucks’ — Federal ‘Zuckbucks’ on Steroids
The Physicist Who Bets That Gravity Can’t Be Quantized
Quanta Magazine > 0; if (typeof predicate !== ‘function’) { throw new TypeError(‘predicate must be a function’); } var thisArg = arguments[1]; var k = 0; while (k We care about your data, and we’d like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read more about our privacy policy.Agree… Continue reading The Physicist Who Bets That Gravity Can’t Be Quantized
Take it from a Coach: the GOP Can Win by Hitting Singles
After the Republican bloodbath that was the 2022 midterm election, there was no shortage of reactions. “We have to ballot-harvest, too.” “We have to stop the stealing.” “Only Trump can save us.” “We have to move away from Trump.” “We have to reposition on abortion.” “We have to kick out the RINOs.” “We have to… Continue reading Take it from a Coach: the GOP Can Win by Hitting Singles
Climate Change Has Made California’s Wildfires Five Times Bigger
CLIMATEWIRE | The amount of land scorched by wildfires in California has been on the rise for decades, and human-caused climate change is almost entirely to blame. A new study, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that California’s summertime burned area has increased fivefold since 1971. And it won’t stop there —… Continue reading Climate Change Has Made California’s Wildfires Five Times Bigger
The National Education Association Is an Enemy of Teachers and Families
Since a majority of students in most American school districts can’t read or perform math equations at grade level, you might think the nation’s largest teachers’ union would spend at least part of its annual national convention pushing solutions to this sad state of affairs. Nope. The National Education Association did push a proposal… Continue reading The National Education Association Is an Enemy of Teachers and Families
New Proof Threads the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
Here’s one way to think about the Minkowski dimension: Take your set and cover it with tiny balls that each have a diameter of one-millionth of your preferred unit. If your set is a line segment of length 1, you’ll need at least 1 million balls to cover it. If your set is a square… Continue reading New Proof Threads the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
Draconian Laws Deter Pregnant Women from Treating Drug Abuse
Neonatologist Stephen W. Patrick of Vanderbilt University Medical Center recalls one patient in particular. She was seeking care for an opioid use disorder (OUD) at the treatment facility that he runs in Nashville, Tenn. The patient came in frantic after an exchange at her first prenatal visit. The sonographer who conducted her ultrasound, she recounted,… Continue reading Draconian Laws Deter Pregnant Women from Treating Drug Abuse
What’s Behind Jerome Powell’s Woke Turn? Bidenomics.
In February 2021, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress, “We are not climate policymakers here who can decide the way climate change will be addressed by the United States. We’re a regulatory agency that regulates a part of the economy.” When Powell said that, less than a month into the Biden administration, inflation was… Continue reading What’s Behind Jerome Powell’s Woke Turn? Bidenomics.