Podcast: Download MYS388: For thousands of years, people have sought to communicate with spirits in basically every culture and religion. But is all spirit communication forbidden to Christians? Jimmy Akin gets to the truth of the matter on what the Bible says, what different Christians have held, and what the Church says today. Get all… Continue reading Spirit Communication
Collaborating Toward a Shipbuilding Renaissance
America is a maritime nation, and its security and prosperity are inexorably linked to the sea. Yet the United States has let its ability to design, build, and sustain the fleet of ships that are the backbone of this prosperity atrophy. A maritime nation that cannot build ships cannot long thrive. At the same time,… Continue reading Collaborating Toward a Shipbuilding Renaissance
How Soon Will the Seas Rise?
In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of irreversible retreat. Glaciers flowing toward the sea at the periphery of the 2-kilometer-thick sheet of ice were losing ice faster than snowfall could replenish them, causing their edges to recede… Continue reading How Soon Will the Seas Rise?
Needed: Blueprint for a U.S. Health System Overhaul
The U.S. health system is broken. Challenges with insufficient capacity and access, ensuring care quality and timeliness, and curbing costs have persisted for decades, coming to a head during the COVID-19 pandemic. Long wait times for receiving primary and specialty care lead people to emergency departments—often by the time their condition has worsened—where they may… Continue reading Needed: Blueprint for a U.S. Health System Overhaul
The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a smoke-filled tavern to discuss a secret plan: If they raise prices together instead of competing, they can both make more money. But that… Continue reading The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
How Trump Changed Conservatism | RealClearHistory
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