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In several previous posts, I have discussed various paradoxes that time travel could cause if it were possible. Travels to the future contr...

It was natural for humans to use their own dimensions as a basis to measure distances. Thus arose the inch , the width of a thumb; the span ...

We are familiar with the Goldilocks zone , considered necessary for the emergence of life in a planetary system. It is the region where the ...

C.S. Lewis In an article published on September 22, 1944, in The Spectator with the same title as this post, later included in the collect...

The publication of Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas has prompted some people to accuse it of being an exercise in Luddism ...

Craig Venter Craig Venter died on April 29, less than six months shy of his 80th birthday. This biologist revolutionized genomics resea...

Friedrich Nietzsche With the loss of the impetus of Christianity, cyclical conceptions of history have resurfaced in the West. Let us se...