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Have They Tried Switching It Off and Then On Again?

There’s an esoteric procedure used by high-level computer experts and engineers which is known to fix the majority of problems with malfunctioning equipment. The high priests of technological wizardry refer to this arcane ritual as “power cycling”. You and I know it better as “turning it off and then

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Can the Soul Survive Modernity?

Can the Soul Survive Modernity?

Louis Armstrong famously said, “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know”. It was, in short, a question of faith: you just knew it when you felt it. The same is true, in a not-so-different way, of God and the soul. The Bible describes the nagging

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We Should Return to Michael Crichton’s Way of Thinking — Part 1

We Should Return to Michael Crichton’s Way of Thinking — Part 1

Dr. Jay Lehr cfact.org CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon. I regard consensus science as

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Have Gay Folks Had Enough of the Alphabet People Too?

Have Gay Folks Had Enough of the Alphabet People Too?

Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones comedy special controversially noted that the “unwritten and unspoken rule of show business” is that “you are never, ever, allowed to upset the alphabet people”. On cue, a goodly slice of the “alphabet people” proved his point by completely losing their glitter-sprinkled shit. But

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Welsh Rare Bits Dug Up by Bunnies

Welsh Rare Bits Dug Up by Bunnies

Some of the most stunning archaeological finds are the results of serendipity. Bedouin shepherd boys stumbling on the cave of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Napoleonic soldier tripping over the partly-buried Rosetta Stone. A warren of bunnies digging up prehistoric British tools. In a first-of-its-kind discovery this month, a herd

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Change to Bio-Plastic and Save the Planet

Change to Bio-Plastic and Save the Planet

Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, a question popped into the brain, “If a bio-plastic is still a plastic, why is it better for the planet?”  Followed quickly by, “Is it better for the planet?” So what is a bio-plastic?  A common one is made from fermented plant starch from

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The “Dinosaur Mummy” of Alberta

The “Dinosaur Mummy” of Alberta

Think of the word “fossil” and you will almost certainly picture bones. That’s because fossilisation is an incredibly rare and unusual process that prefers the hardest parts of organisms: bones, teeth, shells, woody trunks. Fossils of organisms lacking bones or shells, or the soft body parts of those that

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Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff

Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of

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Govt Policies Must Catch up with Latest Data on COVID-19

Govt Policies Must Catch up with Latest Data on COVID-19

Simon Thornley Ananish Chaudhuri covidplanb.co.nz António Egas Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949 for frontal lobotomy, a supposed cure for mental illness. Ultimately, however, Moniz and the Nobel committee were wrong. The operation did irreparable harm to over fifty thousand patients and the results were far

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Will AI Kill Us with Convenience?

Will AI Kill Us with Convenience?

Freedom of Choice is what you got. Freedom from Choice is what you want. Devo From the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, humans have fretted that the machines of our own inventions would also spell our extinction. First, weaving mills were going to make workers redundant. Then robots were going

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The Many Variants of Fauci’s Mutating COVID Advice

The Many Variants of Fauci’s Mutating COVID Advice

Phillip W. Magness aier.org Phil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States. In an explosive Senate hearing on March

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