The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. - Freeman John Dyson

I will hoist a cup of tea. 😇

The growth of euthanasia will provide the medical profession with abundant opportunities to bring more shame and disgrace upon itself. If we accept the premise that it is an appropriate medical response to suffering, there will be no limits on how it is used. Best to say no.

BREAKING: Israel confirms the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza have been recovered. The remains of 24-year-old Israeli police officer Ran Gvili have returned home more than two years after he was killed while confronting Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023.

Itzik Gvili, the father of Ran Gvili, says his farewell: “You had every opportunity to stay home, but you told me, ‘Dad, I won’t leave my friends alone.’ The whole nation is with you. I am proud of you, my son.” Ran Gvili is a true hero of Israel.

Imagine that: fewer kids. Hm.......wonder how that happened...... youtube.com/watch?v=R4IbIN…

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, marking over 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. As survivors grow fewer and antisemitism rises, today is more vital than

Once again, I post this Auschwitz Memorial photo of Istvan Reiner, as I do every year on #HolocaustMemorialDay. The Nazis had given him a ticket punch to play with. Such a radiant, happy little soul, innocent and pure. And then they gassed him, and snuffed him out. #NeverForget🕯️

A truly historic moment - the newly opened Pilgrimage Road at the City of David is welcoming visitors for the first time in nearly 2,000 years. This stone-paved path once carried pilgrims from the Pool of Siloam up to the Temple Mount for Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot, alive

I desperately want to join in on this hunt. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them | Elsa Johnson, The Times In 2023, one month into my freshman year at Stanford University, an upperclassman was showing me her dorm room — a prized single in one of the nicest buildings on campus. As

Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days Larry the Cat Peter Cardwell

In many early medieval calendars, 7 February is the first day of spring. Anglo-Saxon poetry imagines spring as a season of quickening and liberation, floods and wild seas - a time when the earth is released from winter's bonds and the waters run free: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2015/02/unwind…

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An Irish priest finished a wedding ceremony, pronounced the couple husband and wife, and moved straight on without telling them to kiss. The bride kept saying “first kiss, first kiss” until he finally understood what she was asking for. Father Healy paused at his lectern and

🪕🎸"You met another and *spbtt* you was gone..." canonlawcamp.substack.com/p/you-met-anot… ~ #abandonment #spousal_abandonment #annulment #canonlaw #canon_law #somethingscanonlawcantfix