Another bad idea from France, Colorado's DNA scandal, and world hunger gives way to world obesity.
Another bad idea from France, Colorado's DNA scandal, and world hunger gives way to world obesity.
Sixty years ago, thirty years before the worldwide web, Marshall McLuhan not only anticipated the internet, social media, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, he predicted the impact they would have and the problems they would create.
The primary season to select the major parties' candidates is over for all practical purposes. We now have the ticket: Incumbent president Joe Biden for the Democrats against former president Donald Trump for the Republicans. How do you see the election playing out?
We've been blogging about different political theories. Here is another one: Political Nihilism. As many as a third of Americans of both parties have what researchers define as a "need for chaos." They want to "burn down" the system, even though they know of nothing to replace it with.
An anthopologist says that many of our contemporary assumptions are WEIRD; that is, Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic. How this applies to woke secularism.
Google launched its much-hyped entry into large language Artificial Intelligence with Gemini, which can both tell you what you want to know and generate images. The result was a fiasco--but a revealing fiasco. Woke AI pushes postmodern assumptions to their logical conclusions, thus exposing their absurdity.
Who gets to have free speech? Rejecting a church ad for "religious indoctrination." And the illegal immigrants from China.
Some Protestants convert to Catholicism, according to a recent book, because of the failures of contemporary Protestantism, the sense that the Roman Catholic Church has something that today's evangelical congregations lack.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos used in IVF clinics are children and so may not be destroyed. Republicans are in a panic, falling all over themselves to repudiate the decision. Well, aren't the human embryos children? Shouldn't they be protected?
British observer Mary Harrington thinks the United States is drifting back to the frame of mind that favors monarchy. Not because of Donald Trump, but because of a shift in thinking that she sees in political operatives of both parties.
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