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  • Report: GMO Food is Safe to Eat, But…

    Report: GMO Food is Safe to Eat, But…0

    According to a newly-released report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), crops grown as genetically modified organisms are safe to eat. Since NAS is probably America’s most prestigious scientific society, that could help tamp down some of the hysteria about the issue. I say ‘could’ because, according to an NPR story discussing the report’s release,

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  • Is Harvard’s New ‘Center of Happiness’ Quixotic?

    Is Harvard’s New ‘Center of Happiness’ Quixotic?0

    The Harvard Gazette reported last month that it’s school of public health will create a new center to study happiness.   The center, created with a $21 million gift, will research how negative social circumstances—poverty, insecurity, poor social relationships, etc.—can impact happiness, as well as the following areas: Identifying and developing a measurement instrument—a positive

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  • How Pagan Writings Convinced a Famous Atheist to Convert to Christianity

    How Pagan Writings Convinced a Famous Atheist to Convert to Christianity0

    Late last week, the New York Times reported on a new academic chair at the University of Miami. The chair will foster “the study of atheism, humanism and secular ethics,” and is thought to be the first of its kind in the nation. According to the Times, the establishment of such a chair reflects the

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  • Are Black, out-of-wedlock birthrates helping drive the violence in Chicago?

    Are Black, out-of-wedlock birthrates helping drive the violence in Chicago?0

    The rising crime in Chicago continues to shock the nation. So far this year, over 1,100 people have been shot and nearly 250 murdered. Sadly, the trend looks like it will put Chicago on a pace for new records, though not the kind a city would want.  According to HeyJackass.com, a website “illustrating Chicago values”

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  • 5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual

    5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual0

    Is there anything more complex and multifaceted than human attraction?  My best friend and myself have discussed in the past how different we are when it comes to the women that we find attractive.  While we can usually agree on people who are conventionally beautiful, our personal tastes seem to be on entirely opposite ends of the

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  • The Decay of our Language is Happening

    The Decay of our Language is Happening0

    “Political chaos is connected with the decay of language.”   -George Orwell   In an article entitled “Valuing Vocabulary,” published Friday (May 20), Cherie Harder, President of the Trinity Forum, connects the state of modern politics, especially the current presidential election campaign, with lessons to be learned from George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.  In Orwell’s

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  • The 5 Likeliest Reasons for an Airline Disaster

    The 5 Likeliest Reasons for an Airline Disaster0

    News of any terrible air accident instantly raises questions about aircraft safety and the threat of terrorism. But until the facts are known, it is unwise to speculate on what might actually have caused a specific crash. What we do know is that there are several causes that are more likely to occur than any

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  • Positive Psychology and a Gospel of Happiness

    Positive Psychology and a Gospel of Happiness0

    “What is real happiness? How can I experience it? How can I live it?” As Christopher Kaczor notes in the Introduction to The Gospel of Happiness, these are questions that every thoughtful person asks. Where, however, might a thoughtful person go for help in answering these questions? Thoughtful Christians, of course, go to the Bible, the

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  • Junk Science: When Buried Research Kills People

    Junk Science: When Buried Research Kills People0

    The New York Times last month reported on a study completed in 1973, the results of which had gone unpublished until recently. The story, headlined “A Study on Fats That Doesn’t Fit the Story Line,” explored a five-year double blind randomized controlled trial–the best method to determine if one thing causes another, according to Times reporter Aaron

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