Follow the Leader? | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 31, 2018 As children, we all probably played the game "Follow the leader." Lots of fun, and a purely safe game. Not so with this curren ...

America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost | John Michael Greer

Credit: El Pomar Space GalleryOct. 31, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In the first two essays in this sequence (here) and (here), I sketched out the framework of Oswald Spengler’s vision of the process by w ...

From An 8 Percent Jewish Guy | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 This writer recently had a DNA ancestry done. In addition to my ancestry being overwhelmingly Italian, I found out two interes ...

The Three Evils | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 The late Martin Luther King JR. gave a stirring speech on Aug. 31, 1967, and it (sadly) rings true today. In his comprehensive ...

It Is a New Era, But China’s Balancing Act Will Fail in the Middle East | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 Although ties between Washington and Tel Aviv are stronger than ever, Israeli leaders are aware of a vastly changing political landscape ...

Antarctic Ocean carbon dioxide helped end the Ice Age | J. W. B. Rae

Deep-sea coral – data was generated on deep-sea corals from 1000m below the sea surface in the Antarctic Ocean. Credit: University of Bristol Oct. 25, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A team of scientists, led by ...

‘A Cruel Choice’: Why Israel Targets Palestinian Schools | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 23, 2018 Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded Oct. 15 in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Na ...

Politics interferes with the ability to assess expertise | Joseph Marks

Oct. 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Learning about someone's political beliefs interferes with a person's ability to assess expertise, as people judge like-minded peers as being more expert in fields complet ...

A call to add a well-being index to national economic measures | Bob Yirka

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 19, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A trio of economists is suggesting that it is time to add a well-being index to national economic measures. Carol Graham with the Brookings Insti ...

Green Zone Amerika | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 21, 2018 After our nation illegally/immorally invaded and destroyed much of Iraq, we set up a mega city for our new embassy. The Bush g ...

Research shows signaling mechanism in the brain shapes social aggression | Shawn Tan

Credit: Martha Sexton/public domain Oct. 19, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Duke-NUS researchers have discovered that a growth factor protein, called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and its recept ...