America and Russia, Part I: Stirrings in the Borderlands | John Michael Greer

Oct. 3, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for ...

End of Hegemony: UN Must Reflect Changing World Order | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2018 There is a rational explanation of why India and Brazil, two countries with vast populations and large and growing economies, are not per ...

Globally, 1.4 billion adults at risk of disease from lack of physical activity | Regina Guthold

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 5, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of cardio ...

Nuclear Calendar -- August 26, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Aug. 26, 2018 Aug. 28 4:30-5:30 p.m., Francis Gavin, Johns Hopkins University, "Rethinking American grand strategy in the age of Trump," ...

Global warming may be twice what climate models predict | Alvin Stone

Sunset. Credit: Patrik Linderstam, Unsplash July 5, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global warmi ...

More than half of Amazonian armadillos carry leprosy | John Spencer

Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). Credit: Richard Truman, USPHS Public Domain (2014).June 28, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- The bacteria that causes leprosy, a chronic disease that can lead to ...

Did Israel Inspire Trump's Family Separation Policy? | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 26, 2018 This past May, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the government's "zero tolerance" policy at U.S. border crossings. It was a ...

From the hearts and minds of men: Torture (vol. 1) | Mickey Z.

Dan Mitrione (above left); also shown a finger crushing device, an electric shock device, and dental devices - all smuggled into Brazil and Uruguay by "diplomatic pouch" from the United States. Mitri ...

Physicist explores the possibility of vestiges of a universe previous to the Big Bang | Peter Moon

Physicist publishes paper in General Relativity and Gravitation proposing to eliminate need for cosmological spacetime singularity and arguing that the current expansion phase was preceded by contrac ...

Astronomers capture first visiting object from outside our solar system | Alan Fitzsimmons

Credit: Queen's University Belfast Oct. 27, 2017 (Phys.org) -- A Queen's University Belfast scientist is leading an international team in studying a new visitor to our solar system -- the first known ...

Small asteroid or comet 'visits' from beyond the solar system | Rob Weryk

A/2017 U1 is most likely of interstellar origin. Approaching from above, it was closest to the Sun on Sept. 9. Traveling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second), the comet is headed away fr ...