Who knew Star Wars villain Darth Vader was in fact a Ukrainian Cossack at heart? Source: www.theguardian.com Darth Vader… Politico.  Continue reading

University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls Source: www.theguardian.com Continue reading

Ted Asregadoo talks Truthout assistant editor and reporter, Candice Bernd, about police retaliation against police monitoring groups. Source: truth-out.org the problem with the police state Continue reading

It’s not a monopoly. It’s a behemoth fighting for its life in a world of giants. Source: m.theatlantic.com Continue reading

Both John Paul II and Benedict XVI understood the power of open dialogue, which is why they did all they could to shut it down within the Catholic church. The sensus fidelium, the insight that ordi… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com Paying heed… Continue reading

The first paintings ever made by human hands, new research suggests, were outlines of human hands. And they were created not in Spain or France, but in Indonesia. Source: m.theatlantic.com A political and an archaeological point. Continue reading

Tom Angell has been spending some time at the Library of Congress reading through newly available papers from the estate of Carl Sagan, the scientist who might just have had more impact on the popu… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com Continue reading

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