Science

Asking the Hard Questions About ‘Climate Consensus’3
- Science
- April 25, 2024
Are we in the midst of a climate crisis? Broadly speaking, there are three answers to this question. Yes and we must decarbonize immediately. King Charles III delivered the keynote speech at the COP28 international climate conference organized by the United Nations last December. A confident and persuasive public speaker, Charles called for a “zero-carbon future”
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The Hidden Risk of Letting AI Decide – Losing the Skills to Choose for Ourselves 2
- Culture, Science
- April 22, 2024
As artificial intelligence creeps further into people’s daily lives, so do worries about it. At the most alarmist are concerns about AI going rogue and terminating its human masters. But behind the calls for a pause on the development of AI is a suite of more tangible social ills. Among them are the risks AI
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Study: The Surprising Connection Between Your Politics and Happiness 3
- Featured, Politics, Science
- April 1, 2024
Do your politics determine—or at least predict—your mental health? Recent research indicates that the answer is “yes.” A study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology found a correlation between agreement with social justice mantras (colloquially referred to as “wokeness”) and depression, anxiety, and lack of happiness. As reported by the New York Post, researchers
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Fire From the Gods: Oppenheimer as a Greek Tragic Hero 2
- Entertainment, History, Literature, Science
- March 27, 2024
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.” These chilling words appear in the opening title sequence of Christopher Nolan’s newest film, Oppenheimer, about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Nolan’s film catalogues Oppenheimer’s education and early
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Science in a World Built for Alchemy 0
- Science, Culture
- March 25, 2024
I like to think of myself as a logician. A rational, critical thinker ready to discard any idea when new information presents itself. Behind the facade though, there was always a passing interest in the arts. Literature in particular, but I still remember the first time I sat in a room with an orchestra playing.
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Are COVID Hospital Protocols Killing People? Ralph Marxen’s Story 8
- Science, Featured
- March 18, 2024
A hospital should be a hospital, not a prison. But Ralph Marxen’s experience was more like the latter than the former when he went in to Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis on August 23, 2021, due to fatigue and dehydration after suffering an illness. Ralph had recently turned 70. He would never go home. After
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