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Kirkus Loves Oppenheimer’s Demon: “Quick Pacing, Deft Characterization, Expert Plotting”

From Discovery Institute Press, it's "high-stakes action that should satisfy the most demanding of political thrill seekers." Read More ›
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Those Demons at the Core: Taut New Thriller by Geoffrey Simmons

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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Photo: South Tower, World Trade Center, by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Grappling with Our Promethean Past … and Future

As with film, we’d also be wise to support works in other genres that skillfully depict fictional worlds infused with a truthful worldview. Read More ›
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Photo: Crawford Lake, by Whpq, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What’s in a Name? Debating the Anthropocene Epoch

Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch. Read More ›
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›
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Photo: Astronaut training, by NASA/Rad Sinyak.

Celebrate Science? Of Course, But…

Today is the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Science Day for Peace and Development. Read More ›

Transhumanists Want to Be Gods

It is always fun to see what our resident technology-worshipping religious fanatics are up to. Read More ›

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