In the fall of 2026, Chris Graney, an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, argued that the universe of at least 2 trillion galaxies (acco...

The musical group, R.E.M.’s most popular song is arguably “Losing My Religion.” The first two lines of the lyrics are, “Life, it’s bigger; I...

Decades before dying while doing battle with the demon possessing Regan NacNeil in  The Exorcist  (1973), Rev. Lankester Merrin successfully...

A contemporary scholar of Chinese philosophy wrote, “myths often contain an element of historical truth, and what passes for historical trut...

Will there eventually be an automated lab run by artificial intelligence? Could AI someday order equipment, conduct reviews of prior empiric...

In the 11 th century, Christians were not welcome in Persia, so in the film, The Physician (2013), Rob Cole, a Christian, pretends to be J...

It would be incorrect to claim that the planet’s atmosphere and oceans are both getting warmer in a linear, across-the-board way. The existe...

The film,  Don’t Look Up , is a most interesting film not only for how it relates science to political economy, but also in that images of w...

The probable impacts of climate change are anything but straightforward, and thus predictable. From the standpoint of mid-2024, huge changes...

I submit that not enough attention is brought to bear on the root of the warming of the planet: the huge increase in human population in the...

One of the most iconic films of the horror-film genre, The Exorcist (1973) focuses on the duality of good and evil that the film’s director,...

First Reformed (2017) contains fundamental ideas concerning the human condition and wrestles with the relationship between religion and p...

On September 16, 2012, “Arctic ice covered just 1.32 million square miles—the lowest extent ever recorded. ‘The loss of summer sea ice has ...

Roger Boisjoly was a booster rocket engineer at a NASA contractor, Morton Thiokol. Boisjoly blew the whistle both within the company and to...

Words  matter in politics. The side that can frame a question by definitively naming it in the public mind enjoys a subtle though often dec...

The findings of two studies published in January, 2019 indicate that Antarctic’s ice had been melting “at an alarming rate” since 1979. [...

Global warming has been so difficult to slow down through political means at least in part due to the fact that most of the action has been...

Tilburg University in the E.U. is known to have an emphasis on empirical studies in the social sciences (including business). With this be...

I contend that other domains have encroached on religion, or religion on them, such that the native fauna in religion’s own garden is scarc...

Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post has not quite turned the corner with respect to spring, and the seasons in general. You see, “season”...