by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 8, 2012 | Society & Culture
My wife recently came across an article on a British website, telling of how in December we started to receive VHF signals from outer space, namely the transmissions of Earth televisions shows bouncing off some astronomical object or objects light-decades away. Of...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 7, 2012 | Philosophy & Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
This TED video caught my eye immediately, since I recent wrote an article, “The Soul of the Scientist”, that offered meaningful ways in which the process of science benefits from, or even needs, the attitude of faith. This video shows how atheism in its...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 6, 2012 | Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2011-12-07} “Comfort ye my people”. A lone tenor voice begins Handel’s “Messiah.” The words soar to the roof of the Academy Chapel, soon joined by the combined voices of the USAFA Cadet Chorale. I know the singer. He’s majoring in computer...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 3, 2012 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
For this Friday Follow-up, I bring you the following statistic, based on the most recently compiled FBI data: Anti-Muslim hate crimes increased 50% in 2010 over 2009 levels. That was the year anti-Islamic rhetoric jumped from the fringe, flooded through the...
by Jeremy Gloff | Feb 1, 2012 | Psychology, Society & Culture
{Opinion piece written in 2009 in response to the economic crisis and the suicides of five friends. Originally appeared on TheNewGay.net.} Another one of my friends killed himself this week. The death toll is up to five suicides in three years. And counting. No need...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 31, 2012 | Psychology, Society & Culture
This TED Talk caught my attention for many reasons, not just being about the human need for personal narratives and transfer of condensed knowledge, but the undue influence of the “story” format. It reminds me of the most successful propagandist messages...
