https://religionnews.com/author/tomreese/ Could an international institution, based on moral principles and ethical standards, handle a crisis any worse than has the Catholic Church and child sexual abuse? I’m waiting. It’s gone on for decades and church protection has generally superseded child protection. With cover-up and denial no longer working, in a different moment in time, finally …
https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Planet-Handbook-Break/dp/1108439586 Did you ever know someone who, about every 15 to 20 years, decides that the old house has too many problems, so they just build a new one. That’s been my MO for years. And it’s worked for me, as I’m not the most handy around the house. However, Mike Berners-Lee tells us that …
https://www.windycitynanny.com/ The suicide rate among white teens, between 10 and 17, was up 70 percent between 2006 and 2016 and while black teens kill themselves less often than white youth, the 77 percent increase was even higher. And a study of pediatric hospitals recently found admissions of patients ages 5 to 17 for suicidal thoughts …
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Suburbs-Experimental-Fringes-American/dp/1948742365 Or, at least, that’s the ‘conventional’ wisdom. Perhaps, however, these quiet, leafy, homogeneous places have more to offer than meets the eye. Our guest, Amanda Kolson Hurley, author of ‘Radical Suburbs’ will challenge your thinking about suburbs and open our eyes to today’s suburbs which are more diverse, interesting and challenged than we might …
https://classics.stanford.edu/people/ian-morris It is a provocative question and it’s being discussed by serious historians. Is the polarization in America the antecedent to a physical conflict that pits the red versus the blue, rather the blue and gray? First people look for a correlation between 1859 and the current era. A State Department official, Keith Mines, was …
https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/ As a child, mathematics was Cathy O’Neil’s passion: ‘math provided a neat refuge from the messiness of the real world’. After teaching for a time, she began to apply her math wizardry for players on Wall Street and saw first hand how dangerous mathematical models, or as she titles her book, ‘Weapons of Math …
http://www.rebeccacosta.com/ Rebecca Costa is an amazing woman. She is a sociobiologist and a futurist. She proclaims that a faith in science and empiricism will pay off in conquering many of the world’s challenges if we trust it and follow its dictates. Of course, human beings can be rational, at times, but often rely on emotions(and …
https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/videos/head-transplantation-the-future-is-now-tedx-talk-by-drsergio-canavero-295184 As John Lennon once said in song ‘you may call me a dreamer’. Well, Italian neurosurgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero has been called that and worse with his long pronounced intention to do a head transplant. You read that correctly. Not a facial transplant…a head transplant. While some may say it’s a true medical moonshot, …
https://www.amazon.com/Lot-People-Are-Saying-Conspiracism/dp/0691188831 Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But, according to Russell Muirhead, the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics at Dartmouth College and Nancy Rosenblum, the Senator Joseph Clark Research Professor of Ethics is Politics and Government at Harvard University, in their new book, ‘A Lot of People Are Saying’, there is a …
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Myself-River-Literary-Nonfiction/dp/0826360718 For many in America they are at different stages of the ‘woke’ process. Recognizing the social changes afoot, they are sympathetic to them, but don’t want to become totally removed from the places from which they come. Yet, those places may seem lost in time. Debra Gwartney, like our last guest, Darrell West, struggle …