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Birdbrained Science: With spotted lanternflies, squash away!
Frogs, locusts, gnats… and lanternflies? Though far removed from the Bible, spotted lanternflies are the latest plague (disregarding frat flu) to cross the University of Connecticut.
‘Godly leadership’: Lisa Demuth’s Pentecostal faith is a driving force behind her politics
Lisa Demuth asked God whether she should run for Minnesota House minority leader. On the morning Minnesota House Republicans were electing a new leader after a bitterly disappointing 2022 election, Demuth read the Bible verse 1 Peter 4:10: “God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them […]
From the border to the Bible: Takeaways from Talarico interview
The Democratic Senate contender discussed education, immigration, taxes, foreign policy and his faith during an interview with The Dallas Morning News.
Fake scenes, real politics: Republican candidates have embraced AI.
From time-traveling politicians to altered Bible verses, Texas GOP ads depict scenes that never happened. Democrats steer clear.
5 must-buy PC games for less than $3 in the Steam Autumn Sale
You can't get much for $3 these days, but you can nab these games.
Is it your personality or a psychological disorder? TikTok has answers.
Maladaptive daydreaming, obsessional jealousy and misophonia are now topics of study as social media trends force psychiatrists to rethink their diagnostic “bible.”
‘The Inner Game of Tennis’, a sports psychology bible, finds its modern mindset
Tim Gallwey's book has become a sacred text for athletes in countless sports. Now it is reencountering the modern world — as an app.
PS6 and Project Helix battle for worst new-gen feature as Xbox and PlayStation outline horrific new ideas
The next-gen is addressing all the wrong problems 🤦
AI political ads warp reality ahead of US midterms
A political ad depicts a US Senate hopeful remarking on God and gender while scrawling in a Bible with a crayon.The lifelike clip shows Talarico writing "let there be six genders" in a Bible with mult...
AI political ads warp reality ahead of US midterms
A political ad depicts a US Senate hopeful remarking on God and gender while scrawling in a Bible with a crayon. But he never filmed the clip: it is yet another AI-generated video pushed by a rival ahead…
‘Live Laugh Love’ Untangles the Politics of White Christian Women
In a new book, ‘Jesus and John Wayne’ author Kristin Kobes Du Mez looks behind the shiplap.
Writer argues Bible anticipated modern science, from hygiene...
An evangelist argues that biblical passages on washing, quarantine and the heavens anticipated later scientific discoveries and point to Christian faith.
Real-life nudist resort forced to speak out after appearing in GTA VI leak
A real-life nudist resort has spoken out after a similar-looking business appeared in Cyberleek's GTA VI development leak as set pulses racing.
GRI “Your Wondrous Works” Conference Presents Science To Buttress the Bible
Adventist scientists gathered for the Geoscience Research Institute conference and tension again emerged between science and the Adventist understanding of creation. What happens when the search for evidence to support Adventism’s understanding remains inconclusive?
Red Dead Redemption 2 free expansion is a new story set within an alternate timeline
If you need more post-game content, you've found it.
PS5 ‘major system upgrade’ on the way with hefty graphics boost
It's the biggest update to drop on PlayStation 5 in a while.
Catholic priest’s new study Bible brings faith and science together for a doubting generation
Father Spitzer hopes readers recognize that the relationship of science and reason with faith are complementary and corroborative instead of contradictory.
Newsom promises new legal fight after Trump gets Supreme Court victory on mail-in voting
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will sue again after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling allowed Trump's mail-in voting restrictions.
Catholic priest’s new study Bible brings faith and science together for a doubting generation
When Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer realized a number of young Catholics were abandoning their faith in the name of science, he decided to do something about it: Create a new study Bible.
Catholic priest's new study Bible brings faith and science together for a doubting generation
Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer has created a new study Bible to address the questions of many young Catholics abandoning their faith in the name of science.
No Man's Sky made free on Nintendo Switch for a limited-time
Perfect timing as the game celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Senate hopeful Talarico touts his faith. Texas Republicans call it blasphemy.
The Democratic nominee is seeking to win over faith-based voters in Texas, the Bible Belt’s largest state, but evangelical Republicans aren’t sold.
Bethesda leaves Fallout 4 community outraged by new update, Skyrim soon to follow
The modders are madders
PlayStation Plus confirms 10 more free games for August in bumper drop
Here's what's coming to PS Plus Extra and Premium in August 2026
Nintendo Switch game made permanently unplayable with no refund for $30 price tag
Unfortunately, there's just no way to play it on Nintendo Switch anymore even if you bought it.
Troy musician nominated for 6 Josie Music Awards
Whitlee Casey, a ministry associate at Temple Bible Church, is nominated for six Josie Music Awards, prominent awards for independent music often called the ‘Grammys of independent music.’
Red Dead Redemption free remaster brings huge overhaul to graphics and gameplay
A great reason to revisit this gem from 2010.
Do Biblical Presuppositions Make Creation Science Unscientific?
Is creation science “anti-science” and “anti-intellectual”?
Xbox hardware update drops feature gamers have wanted for years
Microsoft drops a huge Xbox console update
Xbox reveals slew of free gifts to users as 25 years celebration continues
It's been a turbulent anniversary year to say the least, but fresh new freebies have arrived.
PlayStation Plus Extra drops 4 free games available to play now
Four new games ready for you!
Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot
On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.
Bethesda’s next shadow drop remaster reportedly coming next month
We may find out more next month!
PlayStation Plus reveals 9 more free games for July 2026
Your PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games have been announced, and here's when you can play them.
Moses was the ‘first capitalist’ and Cain the ‘first socialist.’ Thus saith this LDS influencer from the past
Conservative LDS writer Cleon Skousen has been dead for 20 years. But his approach to the Bible and politics remains very much alive in the church and the nation.
George Washington's prayer life, private struggles take the spotlight in New Museum of the Bible play
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the Museum of the Bible is inviting audiences behind the scenes of the American Revolution with A General s Prayer, a new one-man play exploring
Union Backs Family Physician After Logan Health Lets Contract Lapse
As a group gathered inside the Logan Health Glacier Conference Center Tuesday evening, Tim Jenkins, the chief negotiator for the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), began the meeting with a Bible verse from Ecclesiastes. “‘And where one may be overpowered, two can stand their ground, a cord of three is not quickly broken,’” […]
Mario Kart game announces shutdown just days after Nintendo Switch death day confirmed
Nintendo saw PlayStation and Xbox's latest announcements and decided to add fuel to the fire...
GTA 6 On Track To Overthrow The Best-Selling Video Game Of All-Time
If any game can do it, it's got to be GTA 6
PlayStation Plus Confirms 3 Games For July 2026 Free Game Line-Up
Available to enjoy from Tuesday July 7.
Texas school board to vote on required Bible readings in public education
If approved by the Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by Republicans, the reading list would take effect in 2030.
Sports Journalists Jettison Their Affection for Silent Protest
When Kaepernick kneeled, he was a hero. When a few Giants players quote the Bible, that’s another story.
US senator demands answers from commish Rob Manfred after MLB's warning to Giants players who wrote Bible verses on Pride Night caps
JD Vance Taunts MLB Over League's Pride Night Caps 'Warning'
Vice President JD Vance isn't thrilled with Major League Baseball at the moment. During last Friday's game between the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants, fans noticed that J.T. Brubaker, Landen Roupp and Ryan Walker wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night hats. It was later revealed that Roupp ...
MLB warns Giants players who wrote Bible verses on Pride Night caps they could face 'future violations'
MLB issues warning to Giants pitchers for writing Bible verses on Pride caps
Major League Baseball issued a warning to three Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on the team's "Pride Night" caps, citing policy violations.
PlayStation Plus Quietly Rolls Out Controversial Change Alongside June Free Games
Don't expect bumper monthly drops anymore.
PlayStation Plus Drops 8 More Free Games For June
PlayStation is dropping a fresh batch of new games for you to play this month!
Just 5 minutes of prayer could have surprising health benefits, study finds
A new study published in The Annals of Family Medicine found that adult patients experienced significant pain and anxiety relief after five minutes of prayer.
James Talarico Said God Is Nonbinary. What Does the Bible Say?
Republicans have pounced on an old statement as they seek to make gender politics the focus of the Senate campaign.
Followers of Bible-based diet say scripture-guided eating transformed their health
Some Christians are turning to the Bible for dietary guidance, following a healthy nutrition plan that eliminates processed food and prioritizes whole foods.
Bond breakout? Big effects of bad data. Immigration and thermostatic politics & dad-chat is coming for dad-books.
Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. Anna Airy, A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London, 1918 Bond breakout - John Authers Across the developed markets, bond markets are staging a slow-motion car wreck. Looking at the drastic moves in the US, Japan, the UK and France, Barclays’ Ajay Rajadhyaksha commented: “Last week, long bonds broke. Not in one country. In all of them. Simultaneously. Four countries. Four different political systems. Four different central banks. But the same trade — “get me out of duration!”” Each country has its own contributing political problems, but the uniformity of the shift out of long-term bonds with high duration makes clear that something broader is afoot. For Rajadhyaksha, it is “simple and uncomfortable.” The developed world “has too much debt, too little fiscal discipline, and no political appetite for fixing either.” If there’s a trigger, it has been the Iran war and the resulting shock to oil supply. Source: Bloomberg G7 countries are now borrowing at rates that were enjoyed by EM in the early 2020s For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Trade between China and Russia has grown in recent years For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Big effects of bad data A decade ago nearly nine in ten Americans, when approached, agreed to fill out the Current Population Survey, which is administered to about 60,000 households each month and asks about, among other things, employment. Fewer than seven in ten do so now (see chart 1). For the Consumer Expenditure Survey, which tries to capture 3,700 households monthly, the response rate is down from 68% to 40%. … When the information becomes less reliable, investment decisions get more difficult to make. Some may be delayed, creating a potential drag on the economy. A new working paper by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University, Erica Groshen, former head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) now at Cornell University, and Duncan Hobbs and Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, hazards an estimate. Preserving trust in “the integrity and quality of official statistics”, the authors claim, generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the BLS, the agency with an annual budget of $700m that is responsible for many of these data. To arrive at their conclusion the quartet analysed an ignoble episode in the BLS’s recent history. On August 1st 2025 Donald Trump sacked Erika McEntarfer, appointed as the agency’s commissioner by his predecessor, Joe Biden. The president alleged, without evidence, that the BLS’s steep downward revision to recent jobs numbers had been “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”. In fact, it was the wanton dismissal that looked bad in the eyes of many observers. In the following seven days there was a 50% leap, relative to the week before, in the average value of the index of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), which tracks the number of articles mentioning such uncertainty that are published daily in American newspapers. This was a discernible jump even when compared to the chaos caused by Mr Trump’s trade war in April 2025 and his real one in Iran in the past two months (see chart 2). Based on Mr Bloom’s earlier study with other colleagues of the EPU’s impact on business investment, industrial production and employment, the authors estimate that the jump reduced American GDP by over $100bn (0.3%) and non-farm payrolls by 168,000 (0.1%). Source: The Economist Immigration and thermostatic politics (Sarah O’Connor in the FT) A strange thing happened a year and a half ago. No sooner had Americans elected Donald Trump as president on an explicitly anti-immigration platform than US public opinion began to swing much more favourably towards immigration. … to political scientists who study “thermostatic” politics, this development is no surprise at all. Public opinion often moves against the prevailing party, especially if they are perceived to have gone “too far” in one direction. The phenomenon was first explored in the 1990s with reference to fiscal policy, but in recent years it has been particularly evident in the realm of immigration policy. While these swings in opinion polls can make it seem as if people don’t know their own minds, they can be a useful democratic check on governments by sending bright flashing warning lights when policies stray too far from the public’s comfort zone. The problem comes when politicians misinterpret those signals. When people tell pollsters they want less immigration, or think it is bad for the country overall (or the converse), they are often expressing an opinion about how things appear to be going in that moment relative to their preferences, rather than a deep shift in their underlying views. According to Alexander Kustov, a political scientist, most Americans’ views are quite stable and moderate: they support immigration that is controlled and in the national interest, and oppose flows that are disorderly or under-enforced. In the US, he argues the Trump administration over-interpreted dissatisfaction with high immigration under Joe Biden, and implemented policies that went too far for many voters. “People don’t necessarily change their idea about their ideal immigration policy, but they can react to what the government is currently doing,” he told me. “A lot of people are not happy with what the Trump administration are doing — right now we’re not talking about border enforcement, we’re talking about people not just getting harassed, but killed.” But similarly, he added, pro-immigration advocates would be making a mistake to interpret the recent, more favourable swing towards immigration as a deep-seated ideological shift in attitudes. The recent history of UK immigration policy offers another cautionary tale. After the 2016 Brexit referendum, public concern about immigration fell. This was partly because net migration statistics declined, but also because people felt a sense of catharsis and control, says Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, a think-tank. By 2019, the public ranked immigration as only the ninth biggest issue of concern, according to Ipsos polling. But when the Conservative government liberalised visa routes for students and care workers between 2019 and 2022, that helped net migration to surge. And so, too, did public concern. Today’s Labour government has implemented another sharply restrictive turn in immigration policy. As Kustov and researcher Caitlyn Yates argue, thermostatic public opinion should be a useful check on politicians. Instead it seems to have helped to magnify the pendulum swing in the UK. The government over-interprets and overreacts to a change in public opinion, which reacts in turn, prompting a sudden swing the other way. Source: Financial Times HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $50. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe Anna Airy, Shop for Machining 15-Inch Shells: Singer Manufacturing Company, Clydebank, Glasgow, 1918 Racing for a vaccine … we have been here before! The deadly Ebola outbreak in two African countries driven by a virus species with no vaccine has triggered an urgent search for a potential jab, in a test of troubled global efforts to avert threats posed by emerging diseases. A World Health Organization advisory group is due to would meet on Tuesday to recommend candidate jabs to prioritise for clinical trials, the global health body said. It will assess data including an analysis by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi), which was set up after failures in the international response to a previous Ebola crisis. The latest Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has infected hundreds of people and killed more than 80, health authorities say. Cepi’s reaction will be a crucial indicator of its progress towards its wider goal of producing vaccines for pandemic threats in just 100 days, despite steep cuts to international health funding. “If there was ever a time that we could show the world why Cepi is needed and show the world why the 100-day mission is needed, it’s now,” Nicole Lurie, the organisation’s executive director for preparedness and response, told the FT. “We’re happy to accept that responsibility, but obviously we need help from partners — particularly financial help in the long run.” DR Congo and Uganda would make the final decision on whether to press ahead with any vaccine candidates endorsed for clinical trials by the WHO experts, the global health body said. “Other ethical and community acceptability issues will be considered,” said the WHO, which declared the latest outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday. “This will be important to make sure that the trial, if it happens, will be adequately communicated to the population.” Lurie said Cepi had provided information from a survey of research teams and companies working on drugs that might be effective against the Bundibugyo virus behind the outbreak. The organisation hoped soon to announce partners in the quest for a jab, she added, although she declined to give a timescale for when one might be developed. Cepi’s Nicole Laurie said global health bodies were ‘getting some live-fire drills’ with hantavirus and the latest Ebola outbreak. The hunt for a vaccine should be helped by scientific advances including the use of artificial intelligence to find drugs active against viruses, Lurie said. Existing jabs against the Zaire Ebola virus responsible for many previous outbreaks might provide a basis for tackling the Bundibugyo species, she added. “We’ll see how far and how fast we can get,” Lurie said, adding that Cepi had done preliminary work recently on a possible jab for the rat-borne hantavirus responsible for a recent fatal outbreak on a cruise ship. “Both with hantavirus and now with Ebola, [we] are getting some live-fire drills.” Source: Michael Peel in the Financial Times Dad-chat is coming for dad-books. (By Pamela Paul and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg in the WSJ) They were the go-to gifts for Father’s Day: a book about some little-known chapter of World War II, the sweeping narrative of a shipwreck, perhaps the latest presidential biography. These days, dad books are a dying breed. Nonfiction book sales have been in decline for the past four years, and are now the most challenged segment of the print book market. Publishers say certain types of books still fare well—including celebrity memoirs and religious titles. But in recent years, print sales in such categories as biography, current affairs and business and economics—what publishers refer to as “serious nonfiction” and which tend to resonate especially with men—have fallen considerably. Sales of nonfiction print titles were down nearly 8% through May 9 this year, and sales of books about politics and current affairs were down 19%, according to book tracker Circana BookScan. Publishing has long been subject to cyclical changes, with trends in format and genre taking over bookshelves in grand sweeps. (Remember the adult coloring-book craze? Or the stratospheric rise of romantasy?) But many in publishing believe the decline in serious nonfiction is more existential. “The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint. “This is a sea change and people should wake up and realize we’re living in a new world.” One culprit for the shift: a new media diet for fans of more serious nonfiction. … Sixty-two percent of men and 54% of women consumed a podcast in the prior month, according to a recent survey by Edison Research at SSRS, up from 46% and 39%, respectively, in 2023. “When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers. “The man who wants to read American history is now tuning into one of the many good podcasts about history that lends the quiet attention to a serious subject he’s looking for. It makes the idea of sitting down with a 700-page Ron Chernow book less appealing. You’ve scratched that itch.” Source: Wall Street Journal Remarkable report by Novara from the nationalist rally in London in mid May. Anna Airy, Leopard Moth and Plums, 1915 If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe
GTA 6 Pre-Orders Set To Arrive Today As PS5 Store Updates Early
Reports claim six initial versions will be revealed.
Sports Argus: Remembering the 'sporting bible of the Midlands'
A book has been published charting the history of the Saturday sports paper which ran for 109 years.
GTA 6 Multiple Game Editions Leak For Pre-Order, Includes Collector's Edition
All we have to do now is decide which one to buy.
Eating Healthy? No, They’re Eating Biblically.
A diet inspired by the Bible has found new audiences online in the Make America Healthy Again era.
Purgatory: Florida congressional delegation in middle of pack in 'Biblical Business Index'
Could Florida legislators be more faith-based?
The Legend of Zelda Next Game Reveal Leaks Online, Major Shake-Up Coming
This sounds like a dreadful idea...
Breath of the Wild 'Remake' Has Us Hyped For Next-Gen Zelda
Zelda: Breath of the Wild looks more gorgeous than ever thanks to this 'remake'
PlayStation Plus Announces Latest Wave Of Free Games For May 2026
Here are your free games on PlayStation Plus Essential for next month!
In ‘the Year of the Bible,’ Evangelicals Debate Politics, Civil Disobedience
CT emphasized diverse views in ongoing discussions in 1983.
Man Boards Southwest Flight To Tampa. Then One Couple Delays The Entire Plane Over Shocking Demand: ‘I Blame The Captain’
A frequent flyer cozied up in his window seat on a Southwest flight to Tampa, Fla. He opened his eyes when he overheard a couple arguing with flight
Unexpected Business Lessons From The Podcast With A Billion Downloads
Unexpected business lessons from a 1B-download Bible podcast: how product design, audience insight and consistency drove sustained engagement and growth.
New Valve Hardware Given Pricing Update, Steam Machine Hopes Crushed
The Steam Machine may not be as "competitively priced" as we hoped.
Legend of Zelda Remaster Dropping On Nintendo Switch, No NSO Required
The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch
Trump will participate in marathon Bible-reading event with other top Republicans
The America Reads the Bible event — with each participant reading a passage aloud — is being livestreamed this week from the Museum of the Bible in Washington and other locations.
Why Trump is reading the Bible — at a complicated moment for his relationship with American Christians
One day after he posted — then deleted — an image comparing himself to Jesus Christ, President Donald Trump sat at his desk in the Oval Office and read from the Bible directly to a camera.
Trump to read Bible verse from Oval Office after feud with Pope and deleted AI image
President Donald Trump will participate in a public Bible reading this week as the administration continues to integrate religion, particularly Christianity, into official business.
Steam Beloved RPG Surpasses Even Crimson Desert In Scale, And It's Free
Steam users have a free alternative to Crimson Desert they've been sleeping on.
Did Pete Hegseth just quote 'Pulp Fiction' during a Pentagon worship service?
Pete Hegseth seemed to quote 'Pulp Fiction' as he paraphrased a Bible verse during a recent Pentagon worship service.
PS6 Leak Signals Unexpected Name Change, 3 New Consoles Due In 2027
The PS6 is expected to land in three very different forms.
PlayStation Plus 3 April Free Games Leak, Including First-Party Hit
The full Extra and Premium tier line-up is due to be confirmed later today.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Rival Launches, Hailed As 'True AAAA Pirate Experience"
Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake fans check out this AAAA pirate experience!
Xbox’s New System Update Delivers Overhaul Gamers Have Been Begging For
Xbox has finally listened to console user feedback with a major system update rolling out now.
Long Awaited Xbox Game Will Finally Be Playable For Free Next Month
Six years after announcement, it's almost here!
PlayStation Plus Confirms Free Game Line-Up For April
Some great games lined up for this month!
Partisanship and science
I recently participated in a symposium of the Denver-based Institute for Science & Policy, during which I had a “fireside chat” with Tony Mills of the American Enterprise Institute. Mills has written extensively on the politicization of science, and the two of us had a very enjoyable hour-long conversation on the topic. You can watch it below. The main questions we dealt with are why there is such a vast partisan gap in trust of science, and to what extent this is a unique moment. Mills helpfully brings a good deal of data to the discussion, as he did in this useful piece at Issues in Science & Technology. Tusk depends on reader support. To support this work, please become a paid subscriber. Subscribe Note this graph, drawing on a range of survey data to demonstrate partisan attitudes toward science since 1970s. As it demonstrates, there’s been a very sharp partisan divergence in confidence in science during the Trump Era, starting prior to the Covid pandemic. At least in part, we can attribute this to a rise in populist anti-science rhetoric embraced by Trump, his appointees, and those in his media orbit. But as the graph also shows, the partisan divide has existed in the past, and it’s not always in the same direction. The largest divergence in party views toward science prior to 2016 was in the 1970s, when liberals equated scientific achievement with the military-industrial complex and thus trusted it less. That era of scientific mistrust is often overlooked. Indeed, as Mills notes, the Moon landings (1969-72), which today are considered one of the last great moments of national unity, were experienced nothing like that at the time. There was sharp debate back then over whether the Apollo missions were worth the vast expenditures when the country had so much else to deal with. It’s outside the dataset, and we don’t have the partisanship lens for it, but the 1950s was another deeply anti-science decade, with critics of intellectuals and college professors alleging their ties to communism and their lack of commitment to basic American moral beliefs. This was the subject of Richard Hofstadter’s 1962 book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, in which he quotes religious leaders like Franklin Graham: [In place of the Bible] we substituted reason, rationalism, mind culture, science worship, the working power of government, Freudianism, naturalism, humanism, behaviorism, positivism, materialism, and idealism. [This is the work of] so-called intellectuals. Thousands of these “intellectuals” have publicly stated that morality is relative—that there is no norm or absolute standard.… This fervor was heavily whipped up by Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin), although it’s clear that not all his fellow Republicans were on board with his red-baiting. What ended that era? The simple answer is the 1957 launch of Sputnik. Americans became afraid that they were losing to Soviet scientists, and suddenly university researchers and government projects were awash with funding. In our conversation, I asked Mills about the possibility of us having a Sputnik moment again that would rally the American public in favor of science today. Mills argued that the COVID-19 pandemic was essentially a Sputnik moment — a terrifying threat to all Americans that required scientific advances to address. But thanks in part to political polarization and the populist and conspiratorial leanings of Donald Trump, we got the opposite of a unifying moment. Many Americans turned against science, despite science actually stepping up in that moment. As we discussed in the chat, it’s not clear what scientists could or should be doing in this moment to increase faith in their work. As Mills notes, one of the chief complaints against scientists and professors is that they’ve become too political; scholars becoming even more political might not help them achieve their goals. This (mainly Republican-driven) anti-science era will end, of course, but it’s not clear what event will bring that about. Share
Why I Changed My Mind on Bible Prophecy and Politics
“It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.”
Xbox Drops 2 AAA Free Games, No Game Pass Required To Play
Xbox users can enjoy 4 AAA games for free for a limited time, with 2 games not requiring a Game Pass subscription! Have a good weekend gamers.
Former Google exec talks AI, Bible, conversion at Catholic business summit
Vic Gundotra, former senior vice president of Google and a Catholic convert, shared about AI, the Bible, and his faith at a recent Catholic business leadership conference. Vic Gundotra, former senior vice president of Google […]
Xbox Drops 5 Limited-Time Free Games, Includes 2025 AAA Hit
Microsoft has launched the latest Free Play Days event on Xbox, dropping 5 free games with the line-up, including a AAA 2025 hit.
Her jabs go viral. He's known to quote the Bible. How social media is shaping a Texas Senate race
Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico are adept at creating digital media moments and collecting social media followers
Fallout Fans Rejoice As Surprise Launch Confirmed, Pre-Orders Open Today
A Fallout announcement has leaked ahead of today's Nintendo Direct, but it's not the game reveal fans were likely hoping for.
Hackers Crack ‘Fallout Remaster’ Countdown, Fans Left Disappointed
A fan on Reddit has checked the metadata of the Fallout remaster countdown to see its secrets ahead of finale, what's inside has left many disappointed.
Google's Genie 3 is 'the end of gaming studios' as 'GTA 6 Greenland edition' stuns fans
The new AI feature allows users to create their own gameplay 'in minutes' using text and image prompts
CT Culture Corner: This 'Wicked' Bible forgot an important word
Yale will be holding an exhibition that looks at printing errors in history in the spring.
Psychiatrists plan to overhaul the mental health bible—and change how we define ‘disorder’
The American Psychiatric Association has announced big upcoming changes to psychiatry’s big book of mental disorders, the DSM
Radical changes could be coming to ‘psychiatry’s bible’
How a person will be diagnosed with a mental illness could look significantly different in the near future.
It's the foundation of psychiatric diagnosis. And it's about to get a makeover
The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is known as the DSM-5. What will the next version be called? That's one of several open questions as the "Bible of psychiatry" goes online.
February's First PlayStation Plus Essential Title Has Leaked, and It Looks Meh
The first of next month's PS Plus Essential tiles has been leaked, and it's very underwhelming
Mass Effect Meets Starfield AAA RPG New Gameplay Has Us Hyped
Mass Effect and Starfield fans should keep an eye on Star Citizen as gameplay looks very promising so far.
PS5's First Exclusive Of 2026 Flops With Critics
It looks like PlayStation 5’s first exclusive game of the year is not performing to the expectations its developer had hoped.
PlayStation Plus Users Urged To Play Free 4/5 Game
PlayStation Plus Extra users have been recommended a free game on the service that currently has an average rating of 4/5.
Steam Machine Price Leaks Online, More Expensive Than We Thought
The Steam Machine's price may have leaked online via a Czech retailer, and it isn't great news if you were hoping for console rates.
PlayStation Plus Users Roast Free January Line-Up As Repeat Game Upsets Subscribers
PlayStation Plus Essential users are roasting January’s new batch of free monthly games, with one of the options having previously appeared on the service.
PlayStation Plus Reveals January 2026 Free Game Line-Up
PlayStation Plus has revealed the next batch of free games hitting the Essential tier in the new year.
PS6 Already Has A Problem And It's No One's Fault, Can't Be Fixed
PlayStation 6 might already have a problem that can't be fixed
Skyrim Meets Stardew Valley in New Free RPG, Out Today
Ethernia is a new pixel-art fantasy RPG that's available from today on PC via Steam for free.
PlayStation Plus Free Game Is an Underrated 25-Hour Open-World RPG
This underrated PlayStation Plus open-world RPG could be the perfect thing to play this festive break, lasting 25 hours.