Vehicles shipped to US used parts made in China with forced labor
By VOA News BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen have used parts from a Chinese supplier banned in the United States for using forced labor, according to a U.S. congressional investigation. A report released Monday by the Senate Finance Committee stated that the car companies developed vehicles using parts created with Uyghur forced labor in […]
Dark Energy Camera Captures the Red Glow of a Cosmic “Hand” Emerging From the Interior of a Nebula
By NSF NOIRLab (U.S. National Science Foundation National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory) About 1300 light-years away, in the constellation Puppis, a ghostly hand appears to be emerging from the interstellar medium and reaching out into the cosmos. This cloudy, ominous structure is CG 4, a cometary globule that has been given the nickname ‘God’s Hand’. […]
High-Tech, Social Media Destroying Teen Mental Health
By George J. Marlin n 2018, Dr. Jonathan Haidt and his colleague Greg Lukianoff explained in their work, “The Coddling of The American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure,” why young people became “snowflakes” who believe they are entitled to get through life without their feelings being […]
The Rooster and the Sultan
A Hungarian Fairy Tale ONCE there lived in Hungary, a very poor old woman who had nothing at all in the world except one Little Small Rooster. This Rooster was scratching the ground one day, looking for something to eat, when suddenly what should he find but a shiny diamond penny!. Now it chanced at […]
Millennials Don’t Have It Easy
By Jefferson Weaver There is a general tendency of each generation to look in horror at the succeeding generation and conclude that the world is doomed. Indeed, Plato, who was a very deep thinker, took a break from philosophizing in the 4th century B.C. to wonder what was wrong with the young people in Greek […]
Free Speech Movement
By Jay Coulter As the years have passed, we have each encountered events or situations that have received massive press coverage. These events could be anything from the 9-11 planes hitting the Twin Towers, to assassinations, mass shootings, the Cuban Missile Crisis, serious earthquakes, or wild fires. How we were impacted by these events could […]
AI Companions Will Only Make Teens More Self-Centered
By James Hirsen The plotline of the 2013 science-fiction film, “Her,” centers around a man who falls in love with a computer. Back then the concept was fantasy. Now, unfortunately, it’s cold hard reality. A number of specialized platforms have recently sprung up that are designed to connect people together with AI (Artificial intelligence) companions, […]
Louvre: Pyramid for a Symbol
By Lourve Museum In the centre of the Cour Napoléon stands the most visible product of the vast ‘Grand Louvre’ project that modernised the museum in the 1980s: the Louvre’s Pyramid, an architectural feat that has come to symbolise the museum itself. A monumental entrance in the shape of a pyramid! What a bold undertaking […]
How a Giant Sunspot Unleashed Solar Storms that Spawned Global Auroras that Just Dazzled Us All
“One of those rare moments that you just can be at one with it with Mother Earth, and with the cosmos.” By Meredith Garofalo First, it was the total solar eclipse at the beginning of April. Then, late last week, the sun became the “star” attraction yet again: A huge sunspot launched a series of […]
Australian Study Says China Uses Global Apps, Games For Propaganda
By Phil Mercer SYDNEY —An Australian study claims that China’s monitoring of global internet users’ online habits — a practice that has made TikTok controversial in the United States — extends far beyond the popular social media app to numerous other platforms and even online games. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a research organization that […]