Dr. Margee Kerr is a “scare specialist.” In addition to college teaching, she is the staff sociologist at ScareHouse, a “haunted house” in Pittsburgh, which apparently consults her scientific expertise in designing effects that scare people. The Atlantic interviews her on the question of why
With the help of modern science, pro-lifers have pretty much won the argument that a baby in the womb is a human life, there being little difference between a child in the womb and a child outside the womb. But that doesn’t mean pro-abortion zealots
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Easter Island, known for its mysterious stone figures, is 2,300 miles from South America. And yet, DNA research has found that the ancient Polynesians had children with Native Americans. This happened between 1300 and 1500 A.D. Today, the residents of Easter Island are 10% American
Our pastor said that each one of us is a “filthy, rotten, putrid, maggot-infested cesspool of a sinner.” But he meant it in a nice way. See his Reformation Sunday sermon, drawn from John 8:31-36, on the bondage of sin and the freedom that Christ
Abortion, far from being a modern medical procedure, was rampant in the past, including in the 19th century. After the jump is an interview with Frederick Dyer, the author of a biography of Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer, the physician responsible for passing anti-abortion laws. He
The second nurse who contracted Ebola from the late Thomas Duncan in Dallas has been cured of the disease. She too was a recipient of Dr. Kent Brantly’s blood. That leaves only one case of Ebola in the United States, Doctors without Borders physician Craig
The nurse who recovered from Ebola had received a blood transfusion from Dr. Kent Brantly, that first American missionary doctor who contracted the disease but survived. So far, he has given about a gallon of his blood to others with the disease, and it seems
As someone who grew up on the Jetsons, I have been disillusioned that the we did not get a lot of the things Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland promised us “by the year 2000.” Yes, we have moving sidewalks, but they are humdrum people movers at the
It’s Reformation Week at Issues, Etc., the syndicated radio program that you can hear online both live and on demand. I’ll be interviewed today 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET on the Reformation on the Visual Arts. Other topics this week will be the Reformation and Education, the
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