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this is what going to a liberal arts college feels like

Daytime napping is associated with a larger total brain volume. 🧵1/8

How we enjoyed the fruits of Eden before the Fall

Science-backed miracles point to Catholicism...

The most important thing to remember is just not to get confused

This is the first map of human brain mitochondria. 🧵1/11

As an atheist, I believed evolution was obviously true. But I no longer believe that naturalistic evolution explains the complexity of life. And I’m not alone. Over 1,200 Ph.D. scientists have signed a public statement expressing their skepticism of Darwinism. Here are just

It’s evident which among you are guided by prayer and which are driven by cybergothic avarice.

1/17 🧵 There’s a kind of spiritual anxiety I see far too often—quiet, hidden, but heavy. It sounds like this: “I don’t pray enough.” “I’m not doing it right.” “I don’t think I’m a good Catholic.” Let’s talk about that for a moment. Let’s lift that weight.

The term 'mental' disorder is a misnomer. It reinforces the notion that "it's all in your head" for both patient & provider.

My oncologist tried to stop my chemotherapy* treatment last week because of a one-page synopsis he had read regarding my recent MRI, which mentioned that one of my brain tumors had progressed. It turns out he had never actually looked at the MRI itself; and the specialist who

I think the ultimate fertility-killer has not been secularization, or the Sexual Revolution, or really even the pill. The primary culprit seems to have been the way 'parenting' has morphed into a kind of suite of ever-changing, high-pressure social obligations that seem to be

People are going to yearn for the days of the (actual) Christian right. Say what you will about Evangelicals, but someone who goes to church every Sunday would never return to the site of a child's suicide to mock them like a serial killer. The right without God is horrifying.

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time. In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)

Josh, Mountain Respector Difficult to understate how pernicious the effects of his work have been Cognitive psychology/behavioral economics exist primarily for the purpose of advancing centralized bureaucratic control over decision-making

My mother recently died, and one of the last things she said to me was this: "There was a while there where I was certain you were either gonna kill yourself or become a monk." She was right. That was where I was at, and it began because my ex aborted our baby. At the time I