Category: Culture

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Arts
Medicine
Tagged
, __featured3, 9/11 attack, advice, antibiotics, bottled water, catastrophes, dehydration, disaster training, Discovery Institute Press, downer, emergencies, evacuation, family, first-aid kit, go bag, highways, lecture, mayhem, medicine, medicines, mushroom cloud, nuclear terror, Oppenheimer’s Demon, pain pills, panic, preparations, radiation exposure, Ready.gov, starvation, suspense, terror attack}

Simmons: The Sentence You Never Want to Read, but Should

_{David Klinghoffer
September 14, 2026

Arts, Medicine

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This novelist has spent a good part of his medical career training others for emergencies, and acting in emergencies himself. He takes them seriously. Read More ›

Girl student freelancer working with laptop at home by the window, education and remote work, programmer, online business

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 12, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Education
Tagged
, academic year, adults, artificial intelligence, chatbots, ChatGPT, Chicago Tribune, Claude, Cleveland, creative power, creativity, Energy, Gemini, Grok, guardrails, habits, images, intellect, Kamar Samuels, learning, New York City, parents, relationships, school districts, schools, Sherry Turkle, students, teachers, technology, text, videos}

How Much Should Students Use AI? Preferably Not at All

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 12, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Education

7}

New York City recently announced a moratorium on AI use in K-12 classes for the 2026-2027 school year. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 11, 2026

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Chicago, CN Tower, demon core, demons, Em Lattimer, ethics, Geoffrey Simmons, Glenn Winders, Hiroshima, Japan, John Zmirak, Los Angeles, Manhattan Project, new york, novels, nuclear weapons, Ontario, Oppenheimer’s Demon, Ottawa, physics, September, thrillers, Toronto, United States, Washington, World Trade Center}

Those Demons at the Core: Taut New Thriller by Geoffrey Simmons

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 11, 2026

Arts, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Author Simmons is, among other things, a disaster preparedness expert. The outcome here would make 9/11 seem negligible. Read More ›

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Date
September 11, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Reporting
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Anderson Cooper, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Atomic Doomsday Clock, Bill Gates, danger, Fast Company, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, human extinction, Islamic terror, Jacob Coxon, Jay Richards, Nostradamus, OpenAI, panic, political power, Ro Khanna, Sam Altman, science media, security hacking, Silicon Valley, Telluride Film Festival, Wired}

AI Hysteria: Take a Deep Breath and Ask, “Who Benefits from Apocalyptic Claims?”

_{Science & Culture
September 11, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Reporting

6}

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit and posted at X last Tuesday, to over 25 million views, that “No other human activity poses this level of danger.” Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
September 11, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Anne Hathaway, atheists, butterflies, Carl Sagan, cassettes, chomping, dinosaurs, faith, hunger, ice cream truck, intelligence, love, memory, Mesozoic era, movies, Oak Street, physical media, shotgun, solar flare, Stranger Things, T-Rex, The End of Oak Street, villains}

Dinos Meet Carl Sagan and a Marriage on the Rocks

_{Bethel McGrew
September 11, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

6}

The family has put together the Big Premise (a solar flare has flung Oak Street back to the Mesozoic era). The dad predicts, “God's not gonna let us die here.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Arts
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Amazon Prime, brain, Dan Brown, Darwinian theory, disaster preparedness, Geoffrey Simmons, George W. Bush, intelligent design, John Zmirak, meaning, medical, nihilism, novels, Oppenheimer’s Demon, physicians, purpose, Quran, Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, Science and Culture Today, Stephen Meyer, suspense, Terrell Clemmons, terrorism, United 93}

Oppenheimer’s Demon Is “9/11 Times a Thousand”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 10, 2026

Arts, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

For the 25th anniversary of 9/11 you may be wondering what to read or watch for the occasion. I have a few suggestions. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biotechnology, biotic populations, Center for Science and Culture, Christians, conversations, farming, fruit, ID Education Day, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, multicellular complexity, offspring, Pew Research Center, reproducibility, Science and Culture Today, seeds, seminars, Summer Seminars, synthetic biochemistry}

The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
September 9, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

Growth of the ID movement has occurred through “sowing the seeds” of evidential support for the theory. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, asylums, Balrog, British society, characters, charity, Chicago, compassion, credit card debt, Darwinian narrative, Darwinism, emergency management coordinators, federal law enforcement, first responders, Gandalf, Geoffrey Simmons, history, home foreclosure, hospitals, human life, military specialists, national security agents, Oppenheimer’s Demon, panic, perpetrators, physicians, stakes, stories, World War II, worldview}

Why the Satisfying Thrill of the Thriller? Thoughts on Oppenheimer’s Demon

_{Terrell Clemmons
September 8, 2026

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This week marks 25 years since the shocking attacks of September 11, 2001. Why did the civilized world respond as it did? Read More ›

Old abandoned white wooden chapel on prairie at sunset with clou

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Author
John G. West

Date
September 4, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, academic fabrication, ACLU, atheists, Brian Josephson, C. W. Howell, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christian magazines, Christianity Today, Christians, Darwinian theory, Denis Noble, Designer Science, Discovery Institute, Dover School District, Edward Larson, evolution, intelligent design, materialists, Michael Behe, misinformation, New York University Press, Oxford University, Pulitzer Prize, Ronald Numbers, Scopes trial, secular voices, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Summer for the Gods, William Jennings Bryan}

How a Christian Magazine and a Christian Scholar Boosted a Book with a Fabricated Quote

_{John G. West
September 4, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As you might have noticed, the critics of intelligent design I’m discussing here aren’t atheists or materialists. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 4, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alex Rosenberg, behavior, consciousness, coworkers, David A. Oakley, Duke University, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, Joe Gough, mental causation, mind-body problem, Newton’s Second Law, Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, philosophers, philosophy, souls, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Metzinger, University of Mainz}

Overhyping the Mind-Body Interaction Problem

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 4, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

5}

Eliminative materialism is best seen as a nice try at cementing materialism in a world where it faces mounting serious challenges. Read More ›