The following essay won first place in our Summer 2023 Essay Writing Contest for high school and college students. The author, Nora Koch, earned a $1,000 scholarship to fund her studies. Robust wildlife surrounds me as I make my way through the tropical rainforests of Maua, Kenya. The aroma of thriving plant life permeates the […]
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The following is a guest article by Ron Barmby. Dr. John Clauser is an experimental physicist and of the highest order. His 2022 Nobel Prize in physics is enough to make him one of the preeminent scientists of our times. His work confirmed the existence of quantum entanglement—that two particles once linked remain linked no
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The following is a guest article by Dr. Roy Spencer and Kevin Dayaratna Bad news sells, and numerous media outlets have sensationalized the past summer as being the hottest on record. But the details behind the dramatic headlines are unremarkable, and certainly no reason to panic. Yes, some parts of the world have experienced unusual warmth in recent
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The following is a guest article by Willie Soon. A new international study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, by 20 climate researchers from 12 countries suggests that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) might have substantially underestimated the role of the Sun in global warming. Image: Creative
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It’s mid-September, which means another annual Apple Event has come and gone, complete with the new iPhone 15 and Vision Pro, a new spatial computing device. But what grabbed the attention of many last week was Apple’s five-minute Mother Nature ad. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash In the ad, a group of Apple employees nervously await
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The following is an excerpt from an article by Rev. John F. Naugle that was first published at Brownstone.org. As I celebrated Mass for our parish on the morning of Labor Day, I was struck by the Gospel which coincidentally was given to be read for Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary time: Luke
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Cal Thomas is Cal Thomas is probably the most senior of all Christian opinion columnists, with his syndicated column reaching millions through hundreds of newspapers. Here he takes on climate catastrophists, showing his usual wisdom and clarity.—ECB Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is September 7th. Good morning! This is The World and
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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash The following is a guest article by Nick Pope. In order to facilitate electric vehicle (EV) production, the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is known for high prevalence of unsafe child labor
The following is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted on WORLD radio, where the hosts discuss the complicated reality of “forever chemicals.” It is an important conversation about what they are, the potential risks they carry, and the costs of regulating them because there is no such thing as a world without tradeoffs. Image:
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The following is an excerpt from an article by Heather Frank. Shaggy-coated and large-tusked, woolly mammoths once roamed the cold tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. Mammoths became extinct thousands of years ago, but now Colossal, a biosciences and genetics company, wants to bring these pachyderms back to life. Using cutting-edge genetic engineering technology,
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