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The Wisdom of Mencius

The Wisdom of Mencius

Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real

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The Realities of Cause and Effect

The Realities of Cause and Effect

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Surveillance Is Pervasive: Yes, You Are Being Watched

Peter Krapp University of California, Irvine Peter Krapp is professor of Film & Media Studies, Informatics, English and Music at the University of California, Irvine. The US has the largest number of surveillance cameras per person in the world. Cameras are omnipresent on city streets and in hotels, restaurants, malls

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New Findings re the Shroud of Turin

New Findings re the Shroud of Turin

William West mercatornet.com William West is a Sydney journalist. In April 2022 new tests on the Shroud of Turin – believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ – dated it to the first century. This dating contradicted a 1980s carbon dating that suggested the Shroud was from

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The Cost of Loneliness

Thomas Crow particle.scitech.org.au Thomas Crow is an Australian science writer. He has a background in professional writing, biochemistry and genetics. He writes for Australian and New Zealand research institutes and publications like Crikey. He’s a horror and gothic fantasy fan. He thinks of himself as a

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Who’s Driving the Pandemic Express?

Who’s Driving the Pandemic Express?

David Bell brownstone.org David Bell, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is the former program head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland. Sceptics of the growing ‘pandemic prevention,

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Why Smith Said “Virtue Is More to Be Feared than Vice”

Why Smith Said “Virtue Is More to Be Feared than Vice”

Richard Fulmer fee.org Richard Fulmer worked as an engineer and a systems analyst, and is now retired and a freelance writer. He has published some 30 articles and book reviews in free market magazines and blogs. With Robert L Bradley Jr, Richard wrote the book, Energy: The Master Resource,

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Unborn Babies Grimace at Taste of Kale

Unborn Babies Grimace at Taste of Kale

righttolife.org.uk Researchers have captured the facial expressions of unborn babies tasting food for the first time, finding that they smile when they taste carrot and grimace when they taste kale. Published in the journal Psychological Science, scientists from the Durham University asked 100 pregnant women to swallow capsules

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BFD January 2023 Political Poll
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BFD January 2023 Political Poll

Take our Monthly Political Poll and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. If you enjoyed this poll please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would

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A Post-dobbs Primer for the Pro-life Movement
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A Post-dobbs Primer for the Pro-life Movement

Chiara Bertoglio mercatornet.com Dr Chiara Bertoglio is a musician and theologian moonlighting as a journalist. She writes from Turin in Italy. Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing By Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis   Regnery Publishing | 2022 | 256 pages Tearing Us Apart is a formidable

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The Origins of Human Society Are More Complex than We Thought
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The Origins of Human Society Are More Complex than We Thought

Vivek V. Venkataraman University of Calgary Vivek V. Venkataraman earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College in 2016. He has served as a College Fellow (2016-2018) and Research Associate (2018-2020) at Harvard University. From 2018-2021 Vivek was a Research Fellow at the Institute

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A Big Picture Look at the Disastrous Public Health Response to COVID-19
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A Big Picture Look at the Disastrous Public Health Response to COVID-19

Carla Peeters David Bell brownstone.org Carla Peeters is founder and managing director of COBALA Good Care Feels Better. David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. An underlying principle of public health is, or was, to provide the public

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Nightmares Are a Good Predictor of Future Dementia – New Study
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Nightmares Are a Good Predictor of Future Dementia – New Study

Abidemi Otaiku University of Birmingham Dr Abidemi Otaiku is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurology at the University of Birmingham and specialty registrar in neurology at Birmingham City Hospital. His research examines the neurobiological basis of sleep and dreaming. We spend a third of our lives asleep. And a

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Empathy or Division? On the Science and Politics Of Storytelling

Claire Corbett University of Technology Sydney Writers can’t always be trusted when they talk about the power and importance of story. We have a vested interest and can get sentimental, promoting the immense power of story, of narrative, as inherently benign. Even when a writer is famously sceptical of

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I’m an Ordinary Woman

Jennifer Hartline stream.org Jennifer Hartline is a Senior Contributor to The Stream. She is a proud Army wife and mother of four children. She writes passionately on the issues of life, faith, family and culture, and has been published extensively at Catholic Online and at Catholic Stand. She is

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