This week is a shortened trading with markets closed Monday, June 20 for the Juneteenth holiday. There’s no other way to put it: the price action in the US stock market this week was ugly, with the S&P 500 losing over 5% on the week, officially putting the index in “bear market” territory, meaning the… Continue reading Stock Market Overview for the Week of June 20, 2022
An Ancient Geometry Problem Falls to New Mathematical Techniques
Explore Around 450 B.C., Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had some time to think. The Greek mathematician was in prison for claiming the sun was not a god, but rather an incandescent rock as big as the Peloponnese peninsula. A philosopher who believed that “reason rules the world,” he used his incarceration to grapple with a now-famous… Continue reading An Ancient Geometry Problem Falls to New Mathematical Techniques
Russia Will Struggle to Sustain Its Disinformation Machine, Former New York Times/BBC Chief Tells RAND Europe
As former head of the New York Times and the BBC, Mark Thompson has tackled disinformation on both sides of the Atlantic. One of his big takeaways: It’s not as easy as you might think to sustain a successful disinformation campaign. “The Russian disinformation machine has taken some good kicks because of facts on the… Continue reading Russia Will Struggle to Sustain Its Disinformation Machine, Former New York Times/BBC Chief Tells RAND Europe
Pelosi’s Court: How The Jan. 6 Committee Undermined Its Own Legitimacy
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the January 6th Committee hearings and how the Democrats undermined the legitimacy of their investigation by breaking the long tradition of bipartisan and balanced membership on such special committees. Many of us support the effort to release more information and evidence on what occurred on… Continue reading Pelosi’s Court: How The Jan. 6 Committee Undermined Its Own Legitimacy
What is a Tape Bomb?
Having a sound understanding of the stock market can often feel out of reach. Sometimes the market follows a predictable pattern and appears to make sense, while other times it is volatile for no clear reason. More often than not, stock prices are affected by a number of events and factors, some of which weigh… Continue reading What is a Tape Bomb?
Haunted House of Marin County (Ghosts, Hauntings, Apparitions)
Podcast: Download MYS210: Is TV ghost hunting anything like the real thing? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli are joined by parapsychological investigator Loyd Auerbach to discuss his work and in particular about a haunted house in Marin County, California. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and… Continue reading Haunted House of Marin County (Ghosts, Hauntings, Apparitions)
Researchers Analyzed Folk Music like It Was Mutating DNA: They Found Amazing Parallels between Life and Art
Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. You’re probably familiar with the concept of evolution. Living things evolve by accumulating genetic changes, which are then weeded out or preserved through a process of natural selection. Turns out the same thing happens in music. And by using the same software that’s used to… Continue reading Researchers Analyzed Folk Music like It Was Mutating DNA: They Found Amazing Parallels between Life and Art
A Four-Day Week: Is America Ready?
How do you make four equal five? That’s a question many Americans are asking as they ponder the future of the time-honored five-day school week. As alluring as a calendar filled with three-day weekends may seem, research shows that short school weeks can have educational and health risks for students, but also benefits for them… Continue reading A Four-Day Week: Is America Ready?
Love in All the Wrong Places: On Leaving Behind the “Land of Transactions”
C.S. Lewis once wrote that God “whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.” Years ago, l was living a “season of shouting”—when I was wrestling with deep spiritual longing and angst, but not yet recognizing God’s voice in my own cries. I had been working for the church for many years, as a… Continue reading Love in All the Wrong Places: On Leaving Behind the “Land of Transactions”
John Allen Abruptly Resigns As Brookings President Amid FBI Qatar Lobbying Probe
After initially being placed on administration leave following news breaking days ago of an official FBI investigation, the president of the Brookings Institution – retired Marine Gen. John Allen – resigned on Sunday amid an embarrassing illegal foreign lobbying probe center on the oil-rich Gulf nation of Qatar. “I know it is best for all… Continue reading John Allen Abruptly Resigns As Brookings President Amid FBI Qatar Lobbying Probe