Climate Disasters Prompt Another Home Insurance Company to Leave a State

January 26, 2024 3 min read The Hartford Financial Services Group is the latest insurer to say it won’t offer new policies to homeowners in California By Avery Ellfeldt & E&E News A home burns during the Dixie fire on July 24, 2021, in the Indian Falls neighborhood of unincorporated Plumas County, California. CLIMATEWIRE | Another… Continue reading Climate Disasters Prompt Another Home Insurance Company to Leave a State

Popper the Poltergeist (Seaford, Catholic Family Poltergeist, RSPK, Jimmy Herrmann)

Podcast: Download MYS295: One of the most pivotal poltergeist cases involved a Catholic family in New York in 1958. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the strange events, including popping bottle caps, and explore why this poltergeist case was so pivotal and what may have been responsible. Get all new episodes automatically and for free:… Continue reading Popper the Poltergeist (Seaford, Catholic Family Poltergeist, RSPK, Jimmy Herrmann)

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Cats Can Hide Their Pain–But Not from AI

Household cats are a secretive species. Unlike dogs, they are masters at masking their feelings and intentions—possibly because of their evolutionary history as solitary hunters. This built-in stoicism makes it hard for cat owners and veterinarians to read signs of pain in a cat’s facial expressions and behaviors, but new artificial intelligence programs may be… Continue reading Cats Can Hide Their Pain–But Not from AI

Public Education’s Alarming New 4th ‘R’: Reversal of Learning

Call it the big reset – downward – in public education. The alarming plunge in academic performance during the pandemic was met with a significant drop in grading and graduation standards to ease the pressure on students struggling with remote learning. The hope was that hundreds of billions of dollars of emergency federal aid would… Continue reading Public Education’s Alarming New 4th ‘R’: Reversal of Learning

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The Part of the Brain That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings

In recent decades, neuroscience has seen some stunning advances, and yet a critical part of the brain remains a mystery. I am referring to the cerebellum, so named for the Latin for “little brain,” which is situated like a bun at the back of the brain. This is no small oversight: The cerebellum contains three-quarters… Continue reading The Part of the Brain That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings

How Civics Can Counter Antisemitism on Campus

The shocking scenes of college students, faculty, and staff defending Hamas’s October 7th massacre of Israeli civilians as a “legitimate act of resistance” have rightly been called antisemitism. Our father’s antisemitism was the centuries-old hatred of Jews just because they were Jews, different in their beliefs and customs. But this new form of antisemitism is… Continue reading How Civics Can Counter Antisemitism on Campus

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Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging

Aging can seem like an unregulated process: As time marches along, our cells and bodies inevitably accumulate dings and dents that cause dysfunctions, failures and ultimately death. However, in 1993 a discovery upended that interpretation of events. Researchers found a mutation in a single gene that doubled a worm’s life span; subsequent work showed that… Continue reading Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging

Astronomers Spy First Star-Forming Disk beyond the Milky Way

Making stars is a messy business. Although the process takes far longer than any human life span, we’ve sufficiently studied its various stages in stellar nurseries scattered around our galaxy to gain a decent overall grasp of how it works. It starts, in general, with a huge swirling cloud of gas and cosmic dust—like the… Continue reading Astronomers Spy First Star-Forming Disk beyond the Milky Way

Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict Innocent People

The city of New York recently witnessed a record payout to George Bell, falsely convicted of murder in 1999, after it emerged prosecutors had deliberately hidden evidence casting doubt on his guilt, giving false statements in court. Bell is the latest in a long line of people, especially Black Americans, unfoundedly convicted. More recently, Jabar… Continue reading Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict Innocent People