New study from Hong Kong found omicron variant of SARS-2 multiplies 70x faster than delta in bronchial tissue but 10 times slower than the original virus in lung tissue. This means omicron, while being more infectious, is less severe.Continue Reading
Senate Republicans agreed to raise the federal debt limit by another $2.5, but they did it in a way to make it look like they opposed the increase. It’s all theater.Continue Reading
3-D printed “suicide pods” may be available for people in Switzerland was early as next year as the belief spreads that death is an acceptable treatment for suffering.Continue Reading
An outage at Amazon last week disrupted package deliveries, silenced the Alexa personal assistant, and locked some people out of their homes. Meanwhile, police in Canada warn that Internet-connected tracking devices are being used to steal high-end vehicles.Continue Reading
We look ahead to the year 2100 and see radical life extension, the changes it will have on human behavior, and the potential problems with not being able to die even when you want to (think Revelation 9:6).
Science often wanders deep into religious territory. This week, we discuss claims that the entire universe is alive and that Jesus was a first-century mushroom hallucination, and compare those concepts to transhumanism, cosmism, and postmodernism.
That’s how renowned French microbiologist Didier Raoult described last year’s Oxford University trial of hydroxychloroquine as a therapy for COVID-19. Among other problems, the dosage given patients was six times higher than the maximum safe dosage in the UK—a level considered lethal in France!
We peer into the future to see what’s coming at us: Self-driving electric vehicles, social media running our lives, and the emergence of “spiritual machines.”Continue Reading
We discuss season 3 of the HBO series Westworld and compare its take on a technocratic dystopia with the current drive by the ID2020 Alliance to create a global digital ID database linked to Bill Gates’ vaccine agenda.
Innovation in science and technology isn’t evil, but it’s a powerful lure that draws humanity back to the false promise of the serpent in Eden: Ye shall be as gods.