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Gary Varner
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August 29, 2026
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 10

Flying a ship and fixing a ship are two different skills
Gary Varner
August 29, 2026
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Science Fiction

Flying a ship and fixing a ship are two different skills. They were able to patch the ship up well enough, but they couldn’t take care of the problem with the hyperdrive by themselves, which is why they went to Lando in the first place.

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Gary Smith
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August 26, 2026
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Media, Psychology
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UFOs and Crop Circles: Believe It — or Don’t

Alleged evidence of extraterrestrial visits often evolves from local news headlines into a game, an art, and an industry
Gary Smith
August 26, 2026
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Media, Psychology
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News
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August 24, 2026
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Psychology, Relationships, Social Media
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The New Friend Necklace: Isn’t This Really *Anti*-Social Media?

Americans are talking to each other less as technologies consume more and more personal time. This is the latest in the barrage
News
August 24, 2026
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Psychology, Relationships, Social Media
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Young person overwhelmed by constant social media notifications, depicting the anxiety and mental health toll of digital addiction and online pressure
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), Psychology, Relationships
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How Our Tech-Obsessed Age Responds to Grief: Grieftech

Just when we thought that the chatbot craze couldn’t get crazier — departed loved ones get uploaded as chatbots
Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), Psychology, Relationships
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Small lonely toy robot sitting on window sill looking at sunset with warm orange copy-space. AI and feelings, emotions concepts.
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 21, 2026
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Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Medicine and Health, Physics
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Is Evolution Theory Canceling Itself? If So, It’s Not Alone

Darwinian biology, along with other areas of science, seems much less sure of itself today
Denyse O'Leary
August 21, 2026
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Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Medicine and Health, Physics
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Evolving For Success and a metaphor as Transform or changing to succeed concept and leadership in business through innovation and evolution of ability as a crumpled paper transforming.
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Georgios Mappouras
Date
August 20, 2026
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Information Theory
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One Question to Rule Them All: The Origin of Functional Information

Information is not meaningful simply because it exists or because it is improbable. It becomes meaningful only if there exists a system that can interpret it and use it to perform a function
Georgios Mappouras
August 20, 2026
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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Information Theory
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Information Symbol on Wooden Floor Against Wall
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 20, 2026
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Environment, Law
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The Language May Be Mild — But the Nature Rights Are Radical

The nature rights movement's seeming mildness sedates some people into wrongly thinking that their cause is not an acute threat to human liberty and flourishing
Wesley J. Smith
August 20, 2026
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Environment, Law
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Creative double exposure portrait of attractive woman with beautiful landscape. International Mother Earth Day. Environmental problems and protection. Caring for nature
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Richard W. Stevens
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August 19, 2026
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Law, Psychology
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Eyewitness Memory: Fallible Doesn’t Mean Worthless

It’s not about poor memories – it’s about asking neutral questions early and getting details known only to witnesses on site
Richard W. Stevens
August 19, 2026
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Law, Psychology
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Tense courtroom moment showing a young man in a red robe being questioned, with a lawyer in the background gesturing assertively. The dramatic atmosphere suggests cross-examination
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Law, Science
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AI: A Boon or a Bane? Misunderstood, or Misused?

Pew Research finds that young people are losing faith in a glorious AI future. They have a point but...
Denyse O'Leary
August 19, 2026
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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Law, Science
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abstract holographic world globe with many connection points symbolizing social media and life for business wallpaper background. Generative AI
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 16, 2026
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Neuroscience, Panpsychism, Philosophy of Mind
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Hotter water? Neuroscientist Christof Koch plans to study NDEs

Having survived an effort to Cancel him, he makes no further commitment to a conventional materialist view
Denyse O'Leary
August 16, 2026
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Neuroscience, Panpsychism, Philosophy of Mind
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Bruce Gordon
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August 15, 2026
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Cosmology, Mathematics, Physics
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Searching for Any World at All in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

If the many-worlds interpretation (multiverse theory) originated by Hugh Everett is understood realistically as it was intended to be, it can easily be rejected
Bruce Gordon
August 15, 2026
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Cosmology, Mathematics, Physics
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Abstract multiverse with galaxies in the background. Generative Ai

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