As the hugely successful biopic Oppenheimer demonstrates, scientists aren’t always nerdy, lab-coated types solely obsessed with scribbling equations on blackboards. J Robert Oppenheimer was a man of wide, and sometimes weird, interests. When he quoted the Bhagavad Gita as the Trinity test bomb mushroomed into the New Mexico sky,
There’s a notable curiosity about so-called “channelers” and “past life regressors”: the spirits they “contact” are always decidedly posh. Atlantean and Egyptian priestesses are quite popular. If they can’t be posh, they must at least be exciting: Salem witches, for example. No New Ager worth their salt ever
Javier Piedra Javier M Piedra is a financial consultant, specialist in international development and former deputy assistant administrator for South and Central Asia at USAID. mercatornet.com Over the past several decades, much of Asia, from Singapore to Seoul, has been experiencing a demographic implosion of unsettling proportions – just look
Gilbert Berdine, MD Gilbert Berdine is an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an affiliate of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. mises.org Healthcare providers have known for years that contact between patients and family members are essential for good outcomes
Mark Sanderson Julian Thomas Kieran Hegarty Lisa M. Given RMIT University theconversation.com Monday marked an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted each day, it’s difficult to remember how we ever lived without the search engine. What
What, exactly, did a Roman emperor do all day? Growing up on a steady diet of Italian sword’n’sandal epics and BBC toga productions, it’s easy to imagine that it was all endless rounds of orgies and gladiatorial games. Oh, and wars, of course. An emperor was, above
Jarrett Stepman Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com The White House and the legacy
dailytelegraph.co.nz THIS MONTH MARKS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF NEW ZEALAND’S MOST ENDURING MURDER MYSTERIES – THE DISAPPEARANCE OF NAPIER SCHOOLGIRL KIRSA JENSEN. Fourteen-year-old Kirsa went missing while riding her horse Commodore after school along the beachfront in Awatoto, Napier, on 1 September 1983. Her disappearance sparked
When you think about it, Christianity is surely the only world religion with a torture device as its symbol. Of course, that’s misrepresenting the symbolism of the Cross as much as the Romans mistaking the doctrines of transubstantiation and Jesus’ birth to mean that early Christians literally ate the
Lawrence W Reed Lawrence W 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 Heroes: Incredible
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com Too many politicians at every level of government – central and local – are either ignorant about what the Treaty of Waitangi meant or are intimidated by those for whom
In the original film of The Exorcist, the demon that possesses young Regan is never named. But he is linked several times to an ancient statue, and amulet, of an ancient Mesopotamian demon. That demon is named explicitly as “Pazuzu” for the first time in the unfairly derided sequel, Exorcist
In a recent social media post, a confused wife and mother wondered what it is about sticks that so fascinates the male of the human species. When her son found a “pretty unremarkable” – she thought – stick, he and her husband colluded to sneak it home. “Why bring it home? It’
Yehezkel Laing Yehezkel Laing is a journalist, actor and filmmaker living in Jerusalem. aish.com For a hundred years scholars have been searching for the mysterious people who created the alphabet. Has the answer been under their nose all the time? The alphabet is such a basic part of our
Jacqui Turner David Stack University of Reading Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you’re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf
The systematic study of fossils truly began around the 17th century, while the term “paleontology” was only coined in 1822. But, just because they didn’t have a name for their study, or understand what they really were, doesn’t mean that humans weren’t aware of the existence of
