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Edge’s Last Question
The guy who runs Edge, the site we've had some fun with over the years, has decided he's run out of interesting questions. So to go out with a noise,…
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Did A Man Really Breastfeed A Baby?
Stream: Did A Man Really Breastfeed A Baby? Something's not right. A paper in the journal Transgender Health reports that a man injected with a myriad of chemicals was able…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Evil Does not Wholly Destroy the Good
Previous post. A hint of the calculus and a reminder all acts intend a definite good, even when the act results in an evil. That Evil Does not Wholly Destroy…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXII
This week: academics gone mad. Item It's Official: The Left Says Statistics Are Racist According to Campus Reform, a paper authored by three British professors argues that statistics "frequently encode…
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Science Says It’s Better To Be Single
The headline reads "It's better to be single, study finds." The study is the peer-reviewed paper "Does singlehood isolate or integrate? Examining the link between marital status and ties to…
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Another State Might Ban Conversion Therapy, Forcing Some To Live With Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction
Stream: Another State Might Ban Conversion Therapy, Forcing Some To Live With Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction The Washington Times reports "Legislation banning gay conversion therapy for minors has narrowly passed the…
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Time To Fast: I’m Giving Up The Internet For Lent
Our friend Jay Richards, editor of The Stream, has an excellent on-going series on fasting. In Part II, he discusses how our Lord fasted for forty days. By fasted Richards…
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The Limits Of Science
The title of this article could equally well be "The limits of philosophy" or of theology, or of any intellectual endeavor. The question is: can we continue to learn indefinitely?…
