Spoilers. No one survives Adam McKay’s new Netflix exclusive film “Don’t Look Up,” as its biting, satirical caricatures lay waste to American politics, media, and culture. On the surface, the film bills itself as just another predictable, overplayed environmental apocalyptic feature with a pinch of dark comedic. But if you want just another “climate change will kill us and we…
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A GIANT sea monster’s head is the same size as a full-grown man after being found in one of the driest place on Earth. The prehistoric dinosaur, named Cymbospondylus youngorum, was found with its long snout and pointed teeth in Nevada’s Black Rock desert. 3 A prehistoric dinosaur’s head is as long as Professor Lars Schmitz, the expert who studied…
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During the winter holidays, Jews celebrate a miraculous, unquenchable light and Christians celebrate the incarnation of God revealed by the light of a star. It’s fitting, therefore, that on December 22 NASA will launch a new satellite capable of seeing the first starlight from just after the Big Bang—a light, and an event, that tell us about the creation of…
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Rejection used to be common for medical sociologist Thomas LaVeist when he tried to get his research published on the effects of racism on the health of black people. “Now,” said the 60-year-old dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, “I have those same journals asking me to write articles for them.” LaVeist’s experience illustrates the…
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An “obsession with masculinity” allegedly characterizes the American right — and David French is obsessed with it. He’s so obsessed with it, in fact, that he couldn’t pass up an opportunity to tweet about it even if it meant putting his scientific ignorance about COVID-19 on full display. French’s most recent attack on the right’s so-called masculinity obsession came in…
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The Nez Perce Indians of northern Idaho received the state’s first large-scale battery from Tesla in November. About the size of a standard shipping container, the Tesla Megapack will store power from solar panels, enabling the tribe to reduce its dependence on local dams. For decades, the Nez Perce have demanded the destruction of four hydropower plants along the Lower…
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COULD this tiny hut be a secret hideout for aliens on the moon? China’s space agency has dubbed it the “mysterious house” after spotting the cube on the far side of the lunar surface. 2 A lunar rover is now moving in to figure out what the “mysterious hut” really is Experts are now planning to make their way to…
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Harken back, if you will, to the spring of 2020. We were told to “stay home to save lives,” and that we needed to “flatten the curve” so hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed. In March and into April, that was the openly stated public health justification: we have to “slow the spread” so people aren’t dying in emergency waiting rooms and…
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WHERE WAS THE LUNAR ECLIPSE VISIBLE? People in North America had the chance to view the eclipse in its entirety because it happened during nighttime there. Those in western Asia, Australia, and New Zealand would have been able to catch the later stages. Africa or the Middle East were not able to see the eclipse because it wasn’t nighttime there…
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Explained: What is the difference between a lunar and solar eclipse? An eclipse in general is described as a body coming between us and a light emitter, with the source no longer being visible. But it can also occur when a body comes between a light source and the body that the light is illuminating, so we can no longer…
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WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE MOON? The moon’s phase is the shape of the moon viewed from Earth based on how the sun is shining on it. There are four primary moon phases and four secondary moon phases. The four primary phases are: First Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter. There four secondary phases are: Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning…
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Jeff Bezos trying to create a narrative Speaking about today’s launch, Dr Heather Alberro, a social and political sciences expert from Nottingham Trent University said: “Jeff Bezos is trying to create a marketing narrative which frames space tourism as something which ordinary people can do”. “The prospect of William Shatner ‘boldly going’ into space will no doubt make for a…
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Explained: What causes the Northern Lights? The Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, are the result of electrically charged particles from the sun, smashing into gaseous particles in our planet’s atmosphere. This solar flare is often joined by a coronal mass ejection – which is a huge expulsion of plasma from the sun’s outer layer. The massive burst of material from…
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REMAINS of a Nazi ‘terror rocket’ have been discovered in Kent, England. Archaeology experts found a piece of a German V2 terror rocket at the field in which it denoted 77 years ago. 6 A combustion chamber from a German V2 terror rocket was beneath the St Mary’s Platt field in Kent 6 Similar rockets caused thousands of UK deaths…
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Many mainstream outlets recently ran a fake news story about hospitals in rural Oklahoma being overrun by people overdosing on Ivermectin. The hospitals were indeed crowded, but there was no evidence, beyond the twisted testimony of one doctor, suggesting it was because of ignorant bumpkins ingesting horse dewormer. Commenting on this story in The Federalist, Rachel Bovard points out how…
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If you thought the misinformation, indoctrination, and viewpoint suppression perpetrated by Big Tech, schools, and the corporate media were limited to politics, think again. One of the many fronts of the war for the right to dictate what you believe is the scientific, religious, and metaphysical debate over where you came from. A recent University of Michigan survey claims “Evolution…
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When the emperor Napoleon asked the great French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace why the Creator was never mentioned in his manuscript “A Treatise of Celestial Mechanics,” Laplace is alleged to have replied, “I had no need of that hypothesis.” Philosopher of science Stephen Meyer’s new book, “Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe,”…
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In the latest episode of pandemic fear-porn, media outlets have grabbed onto a new study claiming babies born during the last 18 months, in the midst of global masks and lockdowns, have lower IQ scores. A range of media outlets from The Guardian to Fox News grabbed on to the sensational headline, leaving many parents worried but also confused as…
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How pervasive is hiring discrimination against blacks in the United States? Those who push for more extensive racial intervention efforts by the government claim this sort of discrimination has not left us, that civil rights and equal opportunity laws are not sufficient to eliminate it, and a combination of greater government activism as well as more extensive private initiatives. But…
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Children as young as 4 years old in Scotland will now be permitted to identify as the opposite sex and alter their names, according to new guidance issued by the country’s government. “The aim of this Government’s education policy is to achieve excellence and equity for all our young people in a high-performing education system,” the foreword of the 70-page…
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