Scientists have successfully implanted false memories into mice. The researches are excited at prospect of applying the same processes to human beings, which they say holds promise for treating emotional problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Read about the experiment after the jump, and then
Starting today, fast-food workers in at least seven cities–Detroit, New York, Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Flint, and Kansas City–plan to stage one-day strikes. The employees of McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and KFC are calling for “a living wage,” at least $15 per hour. (more…)
James Kalb has published an article that explains (1) why Democrats and Republicans (also Libertarians, Anarchists, and Populists) are ultimately so similar; (2) why social conservatives, such as Christians and other traditionalists, have such a difficulty in being heard in the public square; (3) the
David Rosen and Aaron Santesso, writing in Slate, no less, says that J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings gives us better insight into “the surveillance state” than George Orwell’s 1984. (more…)
I told you about Rich Shipe’s youth group and their Bible reading marathon. After the jump is a video that compresses the three days of non-stop reading into four and a half minutes. (more…)
The Earth and the Moon from the Saturn probe Cassini, launched in 1997 and still sending back pictures, about a billion miles away: (more…)
Democracy in America, written by the French aristocrat Alexis de Toqueville in 1835, is full of stunningly perceptive and prescient insights into American culture, many of which are valid today nearly three hundred years later. Paula Bolyard discusses what he says about Christianity in the
The Freedom from Religion Foundation is trying to get the state of Ohio to remove a Star of David. From a Holocaust memorial! (more…)
Here is a rather inspiring story about the use of social media and lots of people stepping up to save a child with Down syndrome from being aborted. (more…)
The royal baby has been named: George Alexander Louis. If all goes well for the young tyke, he will someday become King George VII. His parents went with a very traditional name for an English monarch. I was wondering if we would have something more
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