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Ask A Genius 1475: “Alligator Alcatraz,” Language Evolution, and America’s Slide into Cruelty on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1474: Bombed Jokes, Trump Roasts, and Comedy’s Unintended Consequences on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1473: Trump, Epstein, and MAGA Infighting: Unraveling the Conspiracy and Political Fallout on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1472: How AI and Augmented Humanity Could Shape Population, Pleasure, and Survival on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1471: From P(Doom) to P(Mush): Rethinking AI, Human Augmentation, and the Future on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1470: Israel, Gaza, and Culture on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1469: Eleven-Day COVID Experience: Paxlovid, Vaccination, Long-Term Risks, and Endemic Trends on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1468: U.S.–EU Tariff Deal Averts Trade War but Draws Criticism on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1467: Trump–Epstein: A Scandal Damaging Trump’s Credibility on 2025-11-08

Ask A Genius 1466: Rick Rosner’s Experience with COVID After 5.5 Years Avoiding Infection on 2025-11-08

Maritime Superiority and Strategic Deterrence: Why Naval Power Still Shapes Global Security on 2025-11-08

1400: One of an old woman’s many ways on 2025-11-08

1399: Hurt People on 2025-11-08

1398: Think Upon the Day on 2025-11-08

1397: “It *is* a safe space for you and it will be a safe space.” on 2025-11-08

1396: Cultural Wisdom on 2025-11-08

1395: Typology of Individuality on 2025-11-08

1394: Holding Space on 2025-11-08

1393: The Vulture and the Cross, Over a Thousand Mights, then a Fiery Night Spiralled Indecline on 2025-11-08

1392: Eschaton, Already Immanentized on 2025-11-08

1391: = on 2025-11-08

1390: Being Mr. Rational on 2025-11-08

1389: Do you want to bet? on 2025-11-08

1388: Sodalitium Modernistarum ¬(Sodalitium Pianum, La Sapinière) on 2025-11-08

1387: Deaths are mostly good on 2025-11-08

1386: Rose and Moon on 2025-11-08

1385: “I hate your generation.” on 2025-11-08

1384: Himhim himhim on 2025-11-08

1383: 19 Iconic Matt Stone & Trey Parker Quotes: South Park’s Creators on Politics, Hollywood, and Satire on 2025-11-08

1382: The Will on 2025-11-08

1381: Talking to Stars on 2025-11-08

1380: Is Heaven Cold? on 2025-11-08

1379: *h₁ésmi ne h₂eǵʰi, tod h₁epi wérsōsu on 2025-11-08

1378: Right Feeling on 2025-11-08

1377: Thinking on 2025-11-08

1376: Tiltriller Chinchilla on 2025-11-08

1375: Shaggy on 2025-11-08

1374: Candy Paint on 2025-11-08

1373: Is it a good recommendation between Ivey and “The Wager”? on 2025-11-08

1372: A or B, Poetic Commentary on 2025-11-08

1369: Their Edge on 2025-11-08

1368: Humanist Eschatological Musings, ‘Heaven’ on Earth on 2025-11-08

1367: Security is Insecurity on 2025-11-08

1366: Saving lights and eyes, an idea on 2025-11-08

1365: The Apprenticeship Model is Alive and Well on 2025-11-08

1364: Sometimes on 2025-11-08

1363: A friend on 2025-11-06

1362: Ordinary on 2025-11-06

1361: Life on 2025-11-06

1360: How is decency done? on 2025-11-06

1359: Errotic Rule Roleversal on 2025-11-06

1358: And to the heroes on 2025-11-06

1357: What is the contemporary ailment? on 2025-11-06

1356: Mr. Psalm on the Rush to Die on 2025-11-06

1355: Free at all, at once, though caught on 2025-11-06

1354: Male Hogs on 2025-11-06

Partnership Studies 4: Childhood, Partnership Systems, and Overcoming Domination Culture on 2025-11-06

Karel Bouley: LGBTQ Broadcaster, Activist & Media Trailblazer on 2025-11-06

Mandisa Thomas on Secular Leadership, Black Nonbelievers, and the Fight for Church-State Separation on 2025-11-06

Redefining Gaming, Esports, and Entertainment Culture on 2025-11-06

Maritime Superiority and Strategic Deterrence: Why Naval Power Still Shapes Global Security on 2025-11-06

Top and Bottom States in U.S. Women’s Equality Rankings: Insights From Chip Lupo on 2025-11-06

Everywhere Insiders 11: Ukraine, BRICS, Africa, Antisemitism, and the Taliban on 2025-11-06

Dr. Elizabeth Weiss on Sacred Bodies, Consent, and Anthropology on 2025-11-06

Secular Coalition for America Challenges OPM Memo Permitting Religious Proselytizing in Federal Workplaces on 2025-11-06

U.S.–China Tech Rivalry: Semiconductors, AI, and Strategic Espionage on 2025-11-06

Trump–Putin Alaska Summit: Missed Opportunities, Optics, and Global Repercussions on 2025-11-06

Professor Bill London on the Science of Sex, Gender, and Evolutionary Biology on 2025-11-06

Everywhere Insiders 10: Global Security: Gaza, Ukraine, Asia, and African Political Stability on 2025-11-06

Rebuilding Media Trust in Lithuania: Dr. Džina (Gina) Donauskaitė on Freedom, Journalism, and Responsibility on 2025-11-06

1353: Humane Temporal Symmetry, Spatial Relational Asymmetry on 2025-11-06

Black versus White on 2025-11-06

1352: “I made 15 calls for you.” on 2025-11-06

1351: Scaling Laws on 2025-11-06

1350: Freedom from Ourselves on 2025-11-06

1346: Clockwork Argument(s) on 2025-11-06

1345: Hypervigilance and Trauma on 2025-11-06

1349: Sentimentalism and the State on 2025-11-06

1348: Love and Firetwerks on 2025-11-06

1347: I never met any truly tough people. on 2025-11-06

1344: In-Sight Technical Difficulties on 2025-11-06

1343: Skydromedriller on 2025-11-06

1342: Hot and Cold on 2025-11-06

1341: Europeans on 2025-11-06

Breaking Generational Trauma: Dr. Robyn Koslowitz on Effective Parenting and Healing on 2025-11-05

Top U.S. Cities for Recreation in 2025: Insights From WalletHub Analyst Chip Lupo on 2025-11-05

Dating Intelligently 3: Infidelity, Trust, and Healing on 2025-11-05

The Everywhere Insiders 9: U.S. Economic, Legal, and Global Policy Shifts on 2025-11-05

Bitcoin, Energy Markets, and the Crypto Illusion on 2025-11-05

Algimantas Kvecys on Reviving the Lithuanian Skeptics’ Association: Debunking Pseudoscience on 2025-11-05

Opting-In to Critical Thinking in Decision Making on 2025-11-05

Leon Langdon’s Humanist Advocacy at the UN on 2025-11-05

1340: To Ghanaian LGBTI, apparently: “If they don’t like it, then they can just leave the country.” on 2025-11-05

1339: Nagel’s Batshit on 2025-11-05

1338: הוּא אַרְבָּעָה on 2025-11-05

1337: Pointless Play with a Stern Face on 2025-11-05

1336: Dependent Moral Structure on 2025-11-05

1335: Compassion and Straw on 2025-11-05

1334: By Bedouin Stars and Sand on 2025-11-05

1333: Beggars and the Homeless on 2025-11-05

1332: Dear Crooked Man on 2025-11-05

Medium1331: Night by riteMedium on 2025-11-05

1330: Change with, in, over and through, Time on 2025-11-05

1329: Erosion on 2025-11-05

1328: Blue Matcha Vilnius on 2025-11-05

1327: Pole to Pole, Cobblestone Stares by Fates on 2025-11-05

1326: Dead Silence on 2025-11-05

1325: Artist by Day, Prophet by Night on 2025-11-05

1324: Hollow Point Life on 2025-11-05

1323: Storybored on 2025-11-05

1322: Quantized Intra-Search on 2025-11-05

1321: Skyfelled Indress Sorrowno on 2025-11-05

1320: Translations and Transformers on 2025-11-05

1319: Foundry on 2025-11-05

1318: Inverse, Outverse, Through on 2025-11-05

1317: Toby Keith the Insult Comic Dog on 2025-11-05

1316: Untrodden Paths, New Frontiers on 2025-11-05

1315: Glasses Off, Alaska on 2025-11-05

1314: Human Partners Meets Electric Fantasy on 2025-11-05

1313: Funerals & War Nostalgia: The Paradox of Finality on 2025-11-05

1312: Brussels and the Lux Flux on 2025-11-05

1311: Transient Relations of Edification on 2025-11-05

Secular Coalition Warns of Christian Nationalist Bias in U.S. Religious Liberty Commission on 2025-11-04

Nimrokh Media Marks 8 Years of Independent Journalism With Calgary Event Honouring Afghan Journalists on 2025-11-04

Empowering Women in BPO: Leadership and Gender Equity on 2025-11-04

From Barefoot Confirmation to President of Iceland’s Humanist Association on 2025-11-04

Gytaute Gyneityte on Lithuania’s Defense, Democracy, and Resilience on 2025-11-04

Digging Into Pew Research Center’s Latest Survey on ‘Nones’ Around the World on 2025-11-04

Michelle Stewart on Cult Abuse, Confession, and Accountability on 2025-11-04

INTERVIEW WITH THE UKRAINIAN NEWS WEBSITE СОКАЛЬINFO on 2025-11-04

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH’S BELKIS WILLE ON THE HUMAN COST IN UKRAINE on 2025-11-04

INSIDE UNICEF’S LIFELINE FOR UKRAINE’S CHILDREN on 2025-11-04

WHY UKRAINE IS BETTING ON ITS OWN COURTS, NOT THE HAGUE on 2025-11-04

1310: Gendered Cruelty on 2025-11-04

1309: Improv Cosmelogy on 2025-11-04

1308: Out of sight, never in mind on 2025-11-04

1307: Quelle Surprise on 2025-11-04

1306: ‘Just another lousy sunrise.’ on 2025-11-04

1305: Claymation on 2025-11-04

1304: “I don’t do this. I’m conservative.” on 2025-11-04

1303: Sight-seeing on 2025-11-04

1302: We the Homefew on 2025-11-04

1301: Icelandic Love Affairs on 2025-11-04

1300: Srebenica and Sudan on 2025-11-04

1299: Middle East Schengen System for Peace on 2025-11-04

1298: The ‘Alcoholic’ Wife on 2025-11-04

1297: Swiss Mosquitoes on 2025-11-04

1296: “You made sex feel fun and safe…” on 2025-11-04

1295: Softness, Finesse, Tact on 2025-11-04

1294: Kisses on 2025-11-04

1293: Little Owl on 2025-11-04

1291: Why have so many feminisms failed with a few broadly succeeding? on 2025-11-04

Fumfer Physics 31: Life-Permitting Universes on 2025-11-03

Fumfer Physics 30: Particles as Baked Bread on 2025-11-03

Fumfer Physics 29: How the Human Mind Measures Time, Space, and Thought on 2025-11-03

Fumfer Physics 28: Why Pi and Fibonacci Appear in Nature on 2025-11-03

Fumfer Physics 27: Intuition & the Universe on 2025-11-03

Fumfer Physics 26: Can We Understand the Universe Without Math? on 2025-11-03

Fumfer Physics 25: Quantum Limits, Black Holes on 2025-11-03

Dan Wilson & Dave Farina vs Steve Kirsch & Pierre Kory: Who won the Pangburn “Greatest Vaccine Debate”? on 2025-11-03

Fumfer Physics 24: Neutron Stars and the Non–Black-Hole Universe on 2025-11-03

South Korean Christian Abusers, Exploiters, and Frauds are Historically Common on 2025-11-02

Rabbi Debra Bennet on Jewish Life, Learning, and Building Inclusive Community at the Mid Island Y JCC on 2025-11-02

The Soft Cruelties of Conversation: Travelogues and Emotional Safety Reflections on 2025-11-02

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Speech at CSW69: Backlash, AI, Representation on 2025-11-02

Michelle Bachelet Speech at CSW69: Michelle Bachelet Reaffirms UN Women’s Global Mission, Empowering Half of Humanity on 2025-11-02

Beyond Dogma and Relativism: Scientific Skepticism Meets Secular Humanism on 2025-11-02

Fort Langley’s Pride Crosswalk: A Village’s Tangle of Symbolism on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 23: Why the Universe May Never Face Heat Death on 2025-11-02

October 7, 2023 in a Long History of Antisemitic Violence on 2025-11-02

How OFA Group’s AI “PlanAid” Is Transforming Building Code Compliance and Architectural Efficiency on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 22: Entropy, Order on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 21: Cosmic Obliteration, Time, and the Faintest Photon on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 20: Time, Black Holes, and 3D Space on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 19: Galactic Filaments, Gravitational Waves on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 18: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and the Engineering of Quantum Reality on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 17: When Space, Matter, Information, and Time Must Scale Together on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 16: Gravitational Lensing as Information, What Warped Photons Reveal on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 15: Gravitational Lensing Discoveries and the Limits of the Big Bang Model on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 14: Dynamic Mathematical Organisms on 2025-11-02

Riane Eisler on Fibonacci Numbers, AI, and the Search for Truth on 2025-11-02

UN Watch on Global Antisemitism Rise on 2025-11-02

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer on Gaza Famine on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 13: Information, Entropy, and the Universe’s Memory on 2025-11-02

Is This the Rights’ Fight? Wrong Turn on Right 3: Utah Murder Trial, Extremism, and Political Scapegoating on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 12: Do We Face Infinite Whys and Finite Hows? on 2025-11-02

African Humanists: Funding Travel and Navigating Visa Barriers on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 11: Is Information in the Universe Preserved or Lost Over Time? on 2025-11-02

Amman Citadel: Layers of History and Civilization in Jordan on 2025-11-02

Disappeared Newborns in Former Yugoslavia: ECtHR Rulings, Serbia’s Reforms, and Croatia’s Obligations on 2025-11-02

Navigating Cultural Fluidity: Self, Stereotypes, and Cross-Border Understanding on 2025-11-02

Robert J. Bolton Jr. on The Interchurch Center: Strategic Homes for Mission-Driven Nonprofits on 2025-11-02

Allenby/King Hussein Bridge Border Crossing to Jordan: Sensory Differentiation and Hints of the Historical Amman Citadel on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 10: Algorithms, Emergence, and the Universe on 2025-11-02

Ohio’s “Operation Next Door”: Rev. Dean Dimon Arrested on 2025-11-02

UN Special Procedures and Afghan Advocacy: Gender Persecution in Afghanistan Accountability Working Group Training on 2025-11-02

The Who and the What of Tyler James Robinson on 2025-11-02

The Actual Criminal Cases Against Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 9: Algorithms, Emergence, and the Nature of Physical Reality on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 8: Distinguishing Energy and Matter in an Informational Universe on 2025-11-02

My Day to Jerusalem: Interrogations at Ben Gurion Airport, Jerusalem Landmarks, and Crossing to Jordan on 2025-11-02

“Is Spacetime Emergent? New Paper Uses Gödel, Tarski & Chaitin to Challenge Simulation Hypothesis” on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 7: Quantum Unitarity, No-Cloning, and Information Capacity in Cosmology on 2025-11-02

Gender Parity in U.S. Administrations: A Historical Timeline on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 6: Digital Physics, Information, and Consciousness on 2025-11-02

Is This the Rights’ Fight? Wrong Turn on Right 2: Charlie Kirk Killing, Antifa Myths & Disinformation on 2025-11-02

Fumfer Physics 5: From Scholastic Thought to Claude Shannon on 2025-10-23

Jimmy Kimmel’s Ratings Surge, Trump Rankings, and U.S. Policy Shifts: Rick Rosner with Scott Douglas Jacobsen on 2025-10-23

Is This the Rights’ Fight? Wrong Turn on Right 1: Free Speech, Antisemitism, and the Right’s Fractures on 2025-10-23

Fumfer Physics 4: The Emergence and Embodiment of Time on 2025-10-23

In-Sight Publishing Announces Noesis: The Journal of the Mega Society (November 2014–June 2025) Release on 2025-10-23

Fumfer Physics 3: Informational Cosmology & Consciousness on 2025-10-23

Fumfer Physics 2: Black Holes vs. Stars on 2025-10-23

Fumfer Physics 1: Edward Witten’s White Hole on 2025-10-22

Charlie Kirk’s Murder: The Facts, Figures, and Contexts on 2025-10-22

Welcome Address to the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Holography and its Applications: Baku, Azerbaijan on 2025-10-22

Biologic Institute, Douglas Axe, and Intelligent Design Creationism on 2025-10-22

The International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design and Intelligent Design Creationism on 2025-10-22

The Discovery Institute and Intelligent Design Creationism on 2025-10-22

Architects of Intelligent Design Creationism, Then and Now on 2025-10-22

Global Data on Gendered Violence: Patterns and Asymmetries on 2025-10-22

Intelligent Design Creationism’s Fall from Grace on 2025-10-22

Bold on Climate, Silent on Abuse: Abuse Survivors and Advocates Call Out Templeton Foundation for Recognition of Ecumenical Patriarch on 2025-10-22

Prosopon Healing Launches Orthodox Church Sexual Misconduct Database on 2025-10-22

How Diego Vargas’s Oniros Philosophie Foundation Confronts Religious Encroachment on Public Spaces, Politics, and Education in Colombia on 2025-10-22

How Matt Dillahunty’s Journey as Host of The Atheist Experience Shaped Online Atheist Activism, Debate Trends, and Community Dynamics on 2025-10-22

Dr. Leo Igwe’s Journey to Free Mubarak Bala on 2025-10-22

Exploring the Memetic Self: Identity, Culture, and Self-Mapping on 2025-10-22

Māori Atheism and Identity: Eru Hiko-Tahuri on Humanism on 2025-10-22

Ronald A. Lindsay on Necessities of Secularism on 2025-10-22

Sean Faircloth, the Great Promise of a Secular America on 2025-10-22

Luxembourg to Host Global Humanist Conference on 2025-10-22

Authoritarianism, Humanism, and Secular Resistance in Peru on 2025-10-22

Conflict Policy and Humanists International: Case Study on 2025-10-22

The First African Atheist Billboard on 2025-10-22

Navigating Indigenous Identity and Atheist Humanism on 2025-10-22

Addressing Clergy Abuse: Reform and Interfaith Accountability on 2025-10-22