There’s nothing like a good volcano eruption to put us uppity humans in our place. The grand-daddy of well-documented eruptions, Krakatoa, was four times the explosive power of the biggest hydrogen bomb ever detonated. It was the loudest noise ever documented. Just over half a century earlier, the even-bigger
Isaac Asimov famously said that the most exciting phrase to hear in science is not Eureka!, but That’s funny… Serendipity has a long and important history in science – in few sciences less than in paleontology. It’s always fascinating to consider how many fossil finds were serendipitous. I had
Well, that’s according to a study as reported by none other than the BBC. Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050, an Oxford University study says. The report said it was wrong and pessimistic to claim that
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion Most vaccinated or unvaccinated
If you were anywhere within thousands of miles of what is now the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, you were in for a bad time. In fact, if you were pretty much anywhere on the North American continent, it was going to get very ugly, very quickly. That
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. This week I was briefly distracted
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Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Despite their country’s vicious war with Russia, surrogacy agencies in Ukraine are still accepting clients. An article in Toronto’s Globe and Mail paints a picture of near-normality for the agencies. In fact,
I’m generally wary of science-by-opinion-poll, because that’s not how science works. It doesn’t matter how many scientists believe one thing, or how many believe another. It doesn’t matter how impressive (or not) their credentials are. All that matters is the evidence and the quality of the
As I wrote yesterday for Insight, science is undergoing its most severe crisis in centuries. Not at the hands of the churches, as so many internet atheists like to fantasise, but from a sustained ideological assault from within. Unto the breach has stepped none other than the Catholic Church — on
As we’ve seen [here], there are plenty of inventions that left their creators with lasting regret. But at least Robert Propst didn’t end up crushed under one of his own office cubicles. Many other inventors weren’t quite so lucky. Here are just some of the inventors who
It’s something of modern fairy-tale: the hardscrabble entrepreneur labouring away in their garage, until, Eureka! a flash of inspiration hits which transforms the world and lets them live happily ever after with a vast fortune. It’s no less a fairy tale for so often being true, from Steve
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young
So, we were right all along. Lockdowns don’t work. In fact, they make things worse in almost every way. Do we get a medal? An apology? A simple “You were right” over tea and biscuits would be nice. But I’m not holding my breath. We’ll just have
