Donald Trump put things at the center of conservative politics. Since the 1950s, conservative intellectuals have championed individual liberty, limited government, and free markets as integral to the American way of life. Libertarians defended liberty from the encroachment of the state. Traditionalists urged a return to Judeo-Christian beliefs and Western values. Neoconservatives argued against the expansion of… Continue reading How Trump Changed Conservatism | RealClearHistory
Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle
The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young mathematician at Cornell University named Pavel (Pasha) Galashin has found that the amplituhedron is also mysteriously connected to another completely unrelated subject: origami,… Continue reading Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle
We’ve Lived through the Three Hottest Summers on Record
September 17, 2025 4 min read The Past Three Summers Were the Three Hottest on Record Climate-fueled heat has caused thousands of excess deaths over the past three summers, which were the three hottest on record By Andrea Thompson edited by Dean Visser Amanda Montañez; Source: Copernicus Climate Change Service (data) The Northern Hemisphere’s summers… Continue reading We’ve Lived through the Three Hottest Summers on Record
The Nuclear Option: Thinking Laterally to Sustain the Royal Navy’s Nuclear Submarine Capability
This commentary was originally published by The Naval Review on October 10, 2025. Submarines, particularly those powered by nuclear propulsion, sit at the pinnacle of technological sophistication in modern militaries, combining stealth with incredible lethality, silently prowling the depths and securing vast maritime spaces. But it is notoriously complex to maintain these machines and the… Continue reading The Nuclear Option: Thinking Laterally to Sustain the Royal Navy’s Nuclear Submarine Capability
Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex
The overall structure of a chromosome can be divided first into large territories, then into more specialized compartments, and then into topologically associating domains, known as TADs. These TADs are often thought of as functional or regulatory “neighborhoods” that put related DNA sequences together. Loops are smaller structures within them that do the finer-scale work… Continue reading Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex
Making the 20-Point Plan Work in Gaza
At his recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump, released “20 points” outlining how, with the support of Arab neighbors, Europeans, and others, the devastating conflict that began October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel might end and a lasting peace be established. Netanyahu accepted the 20 points as a… Continue reading Making the 20-Point Plan Work in Gaza
The Gut-Brain Connection Is Real—And It’s Changing How We Think about Health
This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. People often talk about having “gut feelings,” but new research suggests there may be more to the idiom than we thought. Scientists are finding that specialized… Continue reading The Gut-Brain Connection Is Real—And It’s Changing How We Think about Health
Increasing the Value of the ‘Linchpin’ Alliance Between the U.S. and South Korea
The alliance between the United States and South Korea faces one of its most consequential tests in seventy-two years. Some observers believe it may be nearing its breaking point, and there is growing concern in both capitals that the existing framework is no longer sufficient to meet the strategic demands of a far more dangerous… Continue reading Increasing the Value of the ‘Linchpin’ Alliance Between the U.S. and South Korea
The Tennessee Prophet John Hendrix
The Tennessee Prophet John Hendrix < !- end of Google Analytics Code Snippet by GA4WP–> // tabnab protection window.addEventListener(‘load’, function () { // make all links have rel=”noopener noreferrer” document.querySelectorAll(‘a[target=”_blank”]’).forEach(link => { link.setAttribute(‘rel’, ‘noopener noreferrer’); }); }); ]]> Podcast: Download MYS387: A mysterious Tennessee farmer who received startling visions of the future no one believed.… Continue reading The Tennessee Prophet John Hendrix
Meet the Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Ever Found
September 17, 2025 3 min read Meet the Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Ever Found A newly discovered dinosaur species has been identified from a fossil unearthed in Mongolia that represents the most complete pachycephalosaur specimen yet found By Jack Tamisiea edited by Andrea Thompson Artist’s reconstruction of the newly discovered pachycephalosaur. Anyone who has ever flipped… Continue reading Meet the Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Ever Found