I used to exercise in the lake park with my girlfriend. That day, some park lights were off and the sky was unusually clear so you could see lots of stars. During a pause I took a look at the sky and noticed some rare stars that looked all messed up, like there weren’t supposed […]
It is just the start. Marriage is like the legendary Ark of the Covenant or the mythical Holy Grail – it is the channel for enormous amounts of power. In the right hands, that channeled power can come in the form of God's blessings – and create a …
Who fights the next global pandemic? Who takes care of people suffering from health problems thanks to pollution? These tricky questions pertaining to health and well-being are now squarely on the public agenda. In the US, Obamacare is expanding …
Although we share most of our DNA with others, there are inherited regions of our DNA that vary from person to person. These variations in DNA sequences between individuals are called polymorphisms. Dot One focuses on a class of polymorphisms called …
On the basis of close analysis and many conversations with the PM’s supporters, I have concluded that those trying to solve the Cameron enigma have been looking in the wrong place.
Evangelical Christianity, of course, has a name for such a phenomenon: It is the Rapture, when the saved are taken bodily up to Heaven, while the rest of us are left to fight it out here below. But while the Rapture has inspired …
Once again, the New York Times reports at length on Jewish deaths in Israel/Palestine — while suppressing news of Palestinian deaths.
Armed police were on stand-by in Greater Manchester today as hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of father-of-five Paul Massey, who was nicknamed ‘Mr Big.’
Gird your loins for this veritable kick in the pants: Netflix is going to raise streaming prices. Sure, you could argue that the service is clearly worth it and would need to inflate its price by several orders of magnitude to be as absurd as standard …
A video from Kurzgesagt digs into some truly eyebrow-raising questions about aliens. It starts with what physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael H. Hart got to wondering about. It's called the Fermi paradox, and it goes like this: If..