Infertility has always been a problem, but it hasn’t been until recently that science and medicine have been able to do anything to counter it. NPR’s Morning Edition had a story of one family’s struggles to get pregnant. I hesitate to talk about this topic, due to the deep emotional troubles that are tied to [...]

NPR on Morning Edition aired a story about two new Bibles which have just been published. The First one, Bible Illuminated, The Book, is a flashy coffee-table New Testament, which was created by Dag Soderberg, a secular Swedish advertising executive. It has a lot of glossy photos meant to help depict the story, celebrities (such [...]

Today I found out that scientists have ‘provided’ what we all already knew,  that happiness is contagious. NPR aired a story this morning which discusses some new research which describes the social effects of happiness. A few interesting facts that came up; happiness spreads more easily than unhappiness, and happiness tends to cluster around those [...]

Conceiving of man as the rationally thinking being/animal has caused us to think of people as the only animals who think. This has put a great divide between us and the rest of the nature. It is thought of as us and then the rest of nature. With the inception of the industrial age, new [...]