University of Wyoming economist Linda Thunström and Denison University anthropologist Shiri Noy, a duo of United States-based female researchers recently examined the tangible effects of publicly offered thoughts and prayers, published “The value of thoughts and prayers” in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: In a second, related publication,... 

Is something extremely unusual happening to our planet? At this moment, Hurricane Florence is just one of seven named storms that are currently circling the globe. That matches the all-time record, and it looks like that record will be broken very shortly as a couple more storms continue to develop. Back in 2004, a Hollywood blockbuster entitled “The Day After Tomorrow” depicted a world in which... 

The bizarre story of Hurricane Florence just keeps becoming even more strange. The good news is that meteorologists are telling us that the storm is expected to lose intensity as it approaches the east coast, but the really, really bad news is that it is now being projected that Florence will slow down and finally stall just off the coastline. In a worst-case scenario, the Carolinas and Georgia could...