One in five Americans is religiously unaffiliated, and the figure is growing. Yet just one of 535 members of the new Congress, Arizona Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, is a declared non-believer. “Unaffiliated,” is defined as people who are atheist, agnostic or who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.” That means only 0.2 percent of …
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Amid the doom and gloom around us there is good reason to think that the lot ot mankind is actually improving. Cheer youselves with the following good news: – After about 200 years of pouring greenhouse gases into the air, resulting in the highest carbon dioxide levels since humans first walked the Earth, the rate …
I am no lawyer but I am flummoxed by the Article 50 legal hearing currently before the British Supreme Court. The issue is whether Parliament should have the final say in Brexit, if necessary over-ruling any agreement made with the EU. The reason I am puzzled is the reported preoccupation with the phrase “from time …
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“At school you are engaged not so much in acquiring knowledge as in making mental efforts under criticism. A certain amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain; nor need you regret the hours you spent on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least …
A massive rise in sea level is coming, and it will trigger climate chaos around the world. That was the message from a controversial recent paper by climate scientist James Hansen. It was slated by many for assuming – rather than showing – that sea level could rise by between 1 and 5 metres by …
