Science

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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The End of the End of Ideology 2
- Politics, Science
- March 7, 2024
In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time to put aside all our ridiculous arguments of the past – socialism, fascism, liberalism, anarchism, technocracy, etc. – and just recognize that elites like him have it all under control. They had already established the building blocks
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‘Mother Jones’ Goes Pro-Guilt and Anti-Logic on IVF 1
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Science
- March 6, 2024
Recently, Mother Jones ran a pair of articles (here and here) on the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos produced via IVF procedures should be considered children, in effect criminalizing the routine destruction of unused or “defective” embryos. The articles lament the perceived unjust consequences of treating human embryos as people. The authors, Kiera
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