The Shroud of Turin has always been shrouded in mystery. Now, intriguing new evidence reveals additional details that support the origins of Our Lord’s two-millennium-old burial cloth. A DNA study of the Shroud of Turin, conducted by researchers at the University of Padova, Italy, found a vast array of genetic material from around the globe … Read more
Many families know how to build wealth, but far fewer know how to pass it on in a way that strengthens the next generation. The big challenge facing many wealthy Baby Boomers today is not how to transfer assets but how to give those assets a meaningful purpose. Wealth should serve a family, support society … Read more
China pretends to comply with green mandates, but it can never get rid of its red communist habits. Looking behind the statistics on carbon compliance, one finds that China is cooking the books. Indeed, with a mere stroke of a pen, Beijing has managed to conjure a statistical loophole roughly equivalent to Germany’s carbon footprint. … Read more
Serving a beer without foam is a mild tragedy, akin to handing someone an espresso stripped of its crema. Not everyone understands why suds matter. In fact, many drinkers view foam as an enemy—a cynical trick bartenders use to shortchange them on the actual liquid. Yet this fluffy, protein-rich network of bubbles is the unsung … Read more
The global climate apocalypse is not coming; in fact, it never was. Science has spoken, and the official models predicting Earth’s demise have been debunked. The Earth will survive. The official model used was the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP 8.5), a climate modeling pathway first published in 2014. It was an extremely hypothetical “doomsday … Read more
In 1917 at Fatima, Our Lady called Russia a scourge but also foretold its immense potential for a spiritual turnaround. Fast-forward to today, and Vladimir Putin’s attempt to demoralize Ukraine has ironically become the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s greatest cause for conversion in a century. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv notes that church affiliation … Read more
The dinner table was once a sacred space. The dining room was a domestic sanctuary where families and friends gathered to share meals, exchange ideas, and occasionally argue over politics and religion. Children learned first principles, manners and valuable life lessons from their parents that are rarely taught elsewhere. Today, however, this sacred space is … Read more
Faced with a war-weary public and a steadily collapsing economy, the Kremlin has found a new enemy to fear: The Internet. It has every reason to be frightened. Pro-Kremlin lawyer Ilya Remeslo, a man previously known for his harsh critiques of democratic activists and his unwavering support for the war in Ukraine, recently made a … Read more
The scientific evidence is mounting. Marijuana use is not harmless and can permanently impair the mind. The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP), for example, has published a long-term study that cuts through the smoke surrounding the debate over marijuana use. Researchers have found a clear link between heavy, long-term cannabis use, particularly when it begins … Read more
A recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests a rather unsettling reality: our Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools breed intellectual laziness. By offloading essential tasks like writing, coding and critical thinking to machines, we are causing our cognitive skills to wither away. Convenient “prompt and accept” dependency is replacing mental effort, memory retention … Read more
