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When you see or experience an artistic work, what is it that occurs within you that draws your attention? is it visual complexity, or perhaps a hidden meaning or thought, that seems new? This is a philosophical question, for people who aspire to, or appreciate further learning. Within the...

Companies are using drones to check out roofs or to spot yard debris and undeclared trampolines. Cindy Picos was dropped by her home insurer last month. The reason: aerial photos of her roof, which her insurer refused to let her see. “I thought they had the wrong house,” said Picos, who lives...

Russia has arrested 11 people, including all 4 gunmen suspected of carrying out the attack at a crowded concert venue in a Moscow suburb last night, the head of the country's Federal Security Service (FSB) has told President Vladimir Putin. At least 133 people are now known to have been killed...

A Canadian law that aims to make social media platforms safer is getting flak for what some decry as government overreach Introduced late last month, the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63, would allow judges to imprison adults for life if they advocate for genocide. Citing a government...

JOHANNESBURG — A minimum of 5.6 million people have been driven from their homes, a further 25 million need aid and some 9,000 have been killed in Sudan since the latest conflict began earlier this year, according to the U.N. The situation gets worse daily, with increasing credible reports of...

Researchers at the University of Texas and the University of Delaware have now uncovered a potential memory system that allows E. coli to 'remember' past experiences for several hours and generations thereafter. The team says that, to their knowledge, this kind of bacterial memory has not been...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secret-mind-of-slime/ I'm trying to wrap my head around the life cycle of this creature. How does it reproduce? and does it die?

Should Hamas keep up the fight, and fight Israel to the bitter end? Or surrender and fully submit to the authority of Israel, turning over their weapons and facing up to the consequences of their immoral and unjustified terrorist attack? Perhaps some think a lesson needs to be learned, and...

Here's my dog. Her name is Hazel:

"McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration announced it waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday" "There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called on House Republicans to expel Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and defeat his motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his post. In a scathing op-ed published in The Washington Post, Gingrich attacked the Florida Republican as...

Apair of "non-human" corpses believed to be at least 1,000 years old have been displayed to Mexico's Congress. The mummified specimens were unveiled by ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan, in front of an audience of lawmakers and scientists on Tuesday. Maussan told the congressional session...

"Home sales fell, but home prices have held firm in most parts of the country,” Yun said. “Limited supply is still leading to multiple-offer situations, with one-third of homes getting sold above the list price in the latest month.” “There are simply not enough homes for sale,” said Lawrence...

"This governor … has treated the situation that we're seeing at the border in an inhumane way," Jean-Pierre responded. "It is atrocious, the actions that he decides to take. He takes this [action] instead of dealing with this issue in a way that we can get to a resolution and working together...

I was just wondering what this means in regards to thermodynamics.

I was wondering if our life is an chain of decision-making events, from childhood on, in that our "personhood" or "self" is just a collection of millions or biillions of premade decisions based on these previous events - and we are merely the compilation of all those *choices*? Or are we...

NEW YORK -- CNN fired longtime host Don Lemon on Monday following his short and disastrous run as a morning show host, a little over two months after he apologized for on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley being past her prime...

Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or...

I'm having trouble with getting help for my daughter, who is becoming dangerously thin. I've called several therapists, and oftentimes they claim that anorexia is beyond their scope, and then sometimes they give me phone numbers to call, and when I leave a message nobody ever calls back. I'm...

So Russia has been condemning the West in it's state run propaganda machine apparently, where now, Russian civilians are saying they're ready to bomb London or Paris, in an allout battle against the West. Russia has also said that it is prepared to push back the borders of Poland. ...So my...