Belarusian rabbi Chaim Kanievsky has said that marijuana may be used by Jews from all backgrounds on Passover only if it is used for medical purposes.
His several notable confrontations with record companies, streaming services, and social media users inspired other artists to both demand artistic freedom and earn their fair share of profits.
An executive from a top shale drilling firm told attendees of a fossil fuels seminar in Pennsylvania earlier this month that fracking companies deliberately avoid setting up shop near the “big houses”…
Objectivity is a much misunderstood concept and is too often uncritically mythologized as central to American journalistic practice.
Supporters of Bernie Sanders and others need to be looking for a path to meaningful social and political change in the likely event that he does not win the Democratic Party nomination.
Jannah Bride was what is known as an FBI “honeypot”—a spy who uses romantic allure to entrap his or her target.
Pharmaceutical companies systematically suppress pertinent data showing the increased risk of suicide and aggression in young patients taking antidepressants
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Ron Placone and Carmen Morales attend the NAB Conference in Las Vegas. During the conference they create an on-site documentary of a Q & A with FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler.
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Waltz With Bashir is a documentary film that exists in a rare category in that it bends the generic conventions of its format, ultimately creating an experience that is truly unique.
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Jet Capsule, know for their mini yachts and other prefab home concepts, has drawn up a concept for a saucer-shaped UFO that floats on the ocean and is completely off the gird.
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London has become a no drone zone this week for the U.S. president’s visit to the capital.
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Jesus and Paul were false prophets Radical apocalypticism was the foundation of the earliest form of Christian-ity. Jesus imagined the kingdom to be coming soon—very soon—in the very generation that heard his…
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Run a Google search on naturalist and preservationist John Muir and you will quickly turn up one of his best-known, yet abbreviated, sayings: “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
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The New York primary came and went and, as I’ve predicted since…this whole series, it went down exactly as I thought it would.
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Is President Obama promising to veto a bill over fears that it could make U.S. officials the subject of lawsuits over drone strikes and other deadly acts during its War on Terror?
A statue of the mythic hero Hercules has suffered the indignity of having his manhood repeatedly removed by vandals.
Probably the coolest website I’ve stumbled upon in the last 6 months or so has been the Secret Sun blog, which showcases the genius level writing of metaphysical pop cultural synchromystic Chris…
Perhaps as good a sign as any that marijuana is pretty much as mainstream as tobacco is that hardly anyone in the US thinks about 4/20 as “International Lighting Up Time” anymore….
Reporters without borders (RWB) released their annual World Press Index which reports that the United States ranks 41 out of 180 in press freedom and independence.
This year’s theme is ‘The Known, the Strange and the New’. We’ll be looking for the strange in search of the new.
Robert Eggers’ period horror film “The Witch” has been one of the surprise hits of 2016. It’s even gained a second wind since its February 23 release: the first weekend of April…
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.