God—total conversion of my whole way of thinking, as anyone could be. I was very committed to an Atheist point of view, and I do not mean agnostic. People sloppily confuse those two terms. I was quite committed to the notion that there was no God. I didn’...
Even if I were to spend more time on the internet, I’m not sure that would be reliable gauge as to progress in the subject matter as there is no way to tell what percentage of the population they represent and whether there has been an increase in that percentage from pre-internet ...
In Asia, Beijing’s “trust deficit” increased to 63 percent during 2020 compared with 60.4 percent before the pandemic, measured by the percentage of respondents who had “little confidence” and “no confidence” in China doing “the right thing in the interests of the global community.” T...
They are relegated to treating it like some unexplainable “shock”, as something inexplicably inherent in a capitalist system, as something that the central bank was supposedly created to stop (I laugh every time I hear people advance that whopper). While market monetarists are busy believing th...
NBC this morning had a poll on this question. They had the highest number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls and the percentage was the same as this: 86% to keep the words, 14% against… That is a pretty ‘commanding’ public response. I was asked to send...
So we only want, they only want to correct to a certain percentage. Let’s just keep it real. So if you start listening to the people who were, who used to be criminal-minded, who committed crimes, and we start speaking with the law offices saying, look, if you treat us like this...
A 2012 survey by the NationalHealthInterview Survey (NHIS) found that about 9.5% of American adults had practiced meditation in the past 12 months, and that this percentage had been steadily increasing over the previous decade. Overall, while there is no clear answer to how many non-religious...
pregnancies resulting from rape are so rare as to be virtually non-existent. There are several contributing factors to this. In addition to the pure mathematical odds against pregnancy resulting f rom a single random act, medical research indicates that an extremely high percentage of woman exposed...
much recent SF media is still available for reviewing. If there is a film you are interested in reviewing, please contact gerry.canavan@marquette.edu and let him know the name of the film and what you think you’d like to say about it. Deadlines are quite flexible. We look forward to ...
Alumnatas courtyard in the Old Town. Ranging from opulent to derelict, the courtyards of downtown Vilnius are a hidden face of the city. ©Augustinas Žemaitis. With its location in the heart of Europe (according to the French geographic institute, the center of Europe is in a certain...