Darren Weaver It’s both appealing and disturbing to think that taking a pill could boost someone’s brainpower to make them “smarter.” Films like “Limitless” and “Lucy” create fantasies of cognition-enhancing drugs that practically provide superpowers. In the real world, college students and finance workers have been known to cram while hopped up on medications like Adderall […]
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Obi-Wan’s ”Certain Point of View” BS Gets Retconned as a Religious Thing
Obi-Wan Kenobi might be one of the most prominent and most popular characters in the Star Wars original trilogy, but I’ve long harbored a grudge against him for lying to Luke about his parentage. No, that’s not entirely accurate — it’s not the lying I despise so much as his nonsense excuse when Luke calls him […]
The Trump Tax Cut: How Much, How Soon, How Certain
The author is the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform. During the 2016 Republican primaries, then-candidate Trump unveiled an outline for a huge tax cut. It was a grab bag of popular measures: Kill the Death Tax, repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and cut individual tax rates. All these have been Republican […]
Government Covered-Up Alien UFO Crash At Roswell, Retired McGill Professor Says: Claims He Is ‘100 Percent Certain’ We’ve Been Visited By ETs
A retired university professor has said he is convinced that the U.S. government is covering up information that aliens have visited Earth and that a flying saucer UFO of extraterrestrial origin crashed at Roswell in 1947. According to Professor Don Donderi, retired McGill University professor, the evidence that an alien UFO crashed at Roswell, New […]
Black lives, blue lives, all lives: What does it mean when we say certain lives matter?
The recent shooting of black men at the hands of police and the killings of law enforcement officers in response have reinstated complicated discussions about what it means when we say certain lives matter. CBC | World News
