Foot-Long Ancient Tooth Discovered on Australian Beach
Source: The New York Times By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Five million years ago, a massive sea monster may have eviscerated sharks and whales using gigantic teeth like this. Murray Orr, […]
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The Hyperloop Is One Step Closer to Reality
Source: Time By Alex Fitzpatrick Nearly three years ago, technology billionaire Elon Muskproposed a radical idea: Why not create a transportation system that involved putting people-filled pods in low-pressure tubes, then […]
American Capitalism’s Great Crisis
Source: Time By Rana Foroohar TIME’s assistant managing editor in charge of economics and business. How Wall Street is choking our economy and how to fix it A couple of weeks […]
Islamophobia Is No Joke
Source: Patheos by Qasim Rashid by Zahid Mian Did you hear about the Mexican who was arrested for saying “hasta la vista”? Apparently someone nearby thought he was an illegal […]
MI5 Raises Terror Threat To Great Britain From Northern-Ireland To Substantial
Source: Huffington Post Steven Hopkins News Reporter MI5 has raised the threat level to Great Britain from Northern Ireland-related terrorism from moderate to substantial, Home Secretary Theresa May has said. The Security Service increased the level from moderate to substantial – which is the third most serious category out of […]
Why are many Indian Muslims seen as untouchable?
Source: BBC Untouchability is worse than slavery, said Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of India’s greatest statesmen and the undisputed leader of the country’s Dalits. Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) are […]
WHY WE SHOULD TEACH THEOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
Source: Religion Dispatches BY JONATHAN SHEEHAN What do you know about theology and where did you learn it? Most of you will answer, “not very much,” and “at home” or […]
Stop celebrating Sadiq Khan’s victory, Pakistan, you have no right to celebrate
Source: The Express Tribune By Farooq Mahmood Sadiq Khan is now the mayor of London. There are countless reasons to celebrate this feat. On a personal level, it is indeed a […]
President Obama Will Bring a Mixed Nuclear Message to Hiroshima
Source: Time President Obama will end his Presidency pretty much the same way he began it: with a call to the world to rid itself of nuclear arms—this time at Hiroshima, the site of the first atomic weapon used in war. Too bad he did so little to reach that […]
The Case Against Artificial Sweeteners Is Getting Stronger
Source: Time By Alice Park They’re supposed to be a way to have the proverbial cake and, literally, eat it too: all the sweet taste without the calories and the metabolic […]
Military school denies Muslim’s request to wear headscarf
Source: MSN CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Citadel military school in South Carolina has denied a request by a newly admitted student to wear a traditional Muslim headscarf. The Citadel said […]
Missing the Sacred: Why This Atheist Came Back to Faith
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison Mormon in progress, mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ and ‘His Right Hand,’ Princeton PhD, All-American triathlete As I sat in church […]
9 Times Bono Was Spot On About What It’s Like To Search For God
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Before Bono became the world-famous humanitarian and frontman of the Irish rock band U2, he was Paul David Hewson from Dublin. The […]
5 Reasons Why I Hate Religious Christianity
Source: Huffington Post By Tyler Speegle Husband, dad, serious coffee drinker, and inspirational blogger – TylerSpeegle.com I have a confession to make. To some it may sound shocking, especially considering I […]
ISIS claims responsibility for Baghdad bombing that killed dozens
Source: CNN By Jomana Karadsheh and Joshua Berlinger (CNN)At least 64 people were killed when a bomb went off at a market in Baghdad, according to Iraqi police. An additional […]
Bangladesh executes Islamist leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes
Source: CNN By Tiffany Ap and Farid Ahmed, CNN Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN)Bangladesh has executed a top leader of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami party, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for war crimes committed during […]
Is This the End of the Religious Right?
Source: The New York Times By SARAH POSNER FOR more than three decades, conservative white evangelicals have been a dominant force within the Republican Party, shaping presidential primary contests and […]
Indonesia calls on Islamic leaders to promote tolerant Islam
Source: Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s vice president on Monday called on Islamic leaders to spread messages about a tolerant Islam to curb extremism that often springs from […]
In France, an uncertain future for Jews
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley PARIS — France is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, and its most troubled. A wave of anti-Semitic violence in recent […]
French government battles intolerance with new public relations campaign
Source: RNS By Elizabeth Bryant PARIS (RNS) On a sunny spring morning, an 18-year-old college student wrapped a scarf around her head to feel what it would be like to […]