New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced on Tuesday he will be auditing the city’s Board of Elections.
Roman authors such as Celsus, Porphyry, Julian, and Lucian of Samosata argued that Christianity is a farce and a fraud. In fact, many of their insights into the new cult, which anticipated…
he New York Times recently ran a big front-page piece, taking up more than a full page, seeking to explain the recent developments in Syria.
The resignation of Albert Gray, who served as ACICS’ president and chief executive officer for the past seven years, comes at a precarious time for the accreditor.
George Clooney held a $353,000-per-couple fundraiser for Hillary Clinton just one day before he called the amount of money in politics “obscene.”
The notion of natural hierarchies is very problematic, and it hides the fact that hierarchies are created through power and political process.
A toroidal field model, or a torus, is essentially an infinite energy loop. It combines the lossless nature of a circle with the infinite storage capacity of a helix or spiral.
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What are the psychological differences between women and men? What causes these differences, and are they shrinking over time? The dominant view – held by most scholars and policymakers – is that…
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There are a few unicorns running around who’ve figured out a way to re-appropriate the dusty old construct of academia to their own terms.
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One of the most widely used forms of information suppression is legal and online. It’s known as negative SEO and companies use it to bury negative publicity.
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Times are rough in China. Over the weekend rival Chinese construction companies battled it out in a full metal deathmatch.
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According to a document obtained by journalist Lee Fang, In-Q-Tel is funding companies that monitor, collect, and analyze social media traffic
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Although the Columbine shootings prompted a new awareness of the potentially lethal outcomes of untreated mental illness, this did not put a stop to school shootings.
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Like a dystopic nightmare, a couple from Michigan faces not only large fines, but jail time over failing to return two library books — one of which is a classic by Dr. Seuss
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Adding to a mounting list of scandals under the family’s belt, the Clintons have now been tied to the Flint water crisis.
Of course in the title there I’m talking about a personal transition as I’m sure chaos magick will live on in some capacity for quite some time. Hell, it’s probably bigger than…
In the hours since I first sat down to write this piece, my laptop tells me the National Basketball Association has had to deny that it threatened to cancel its 2017 All-Star…
Many are familiar with the Flower of Life symbol (featured picture), and how it’s constructed with many circles.
There is a solitude in driving a cab. Your co-workers are the citizens of your town, as well as those just in for a short visit…
It sounds more like a question posed in an episode of “Star Trek” than in academic discourse, but sometimes the bleeding edge of science blurs with themes found in science fiction.
I’m sitting here with a cocktail whose brethren are unnumbered, trying desperately to prepare myself for the pure shittery that is electoral politics.
The most controversial film selected for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Vaxxed, will probably get more media attention than any other, which is a shame considering that Vaxxed isn’t actually going to premiere…
ISIS did its best to destroy everything around the Temple of Bel, but the angels of our better judgment overruled the followers of an Abrahamic religion and saved a piece to our…
Using an “opaque and secretive network” of subsidiaries in tax havens, top American corporations have stashed $1.4 trillion offshore, a new report from Oxfam shows.
Antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” are on track to kill more people than cancer, the UK’s chief financial minister will warn Thursday.
This week we did a special Record Store Day episode. We recorded this episode in Minneapolis and went to two different stores, the Electric Fetus and Extreme Noise.
The popular ride-sharing app handed over information affecting more than 12 million riders and drivers to a number of U.S. regulators
When asked to name a poison, people may well think of cyanide, arsenic or strychnine. But these are not the most toxic substances known.