Thomas S. Dee, an education professor at Stanford University, has just released the results of a study he carried out in partnership with the Associated Press. The study’s topic is student absenteeism in 40 states, and the results are disturbing. The Dee study concludes that 6.5 million students are chronic absentees. They are absent more than one
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The Washington Post ran a headline Wednesday, August 2, saying Donald “Trump has been indicted before. Historians say this time is different.” Why is this time different? From the Democrat point of view, we are at a turning point in American history. The next 458 days, many Democrats feel, will determine whether we have a
The figures are staggering. During this Fourth of July weekend, there were 22 mass shootings in 13 states. Yes, twenty-two mass shootings. What’s more, twenty Americans were killed and 126 were injured in the five days between last Friday and early Wednesday morning. But that’s just the toll from mass shootings. Over the last week, there were 384
In my opinion, the sooner Vladimir Putin leaves the planet the better. He’s a mass murderer. But the fact is that Putin has pulled off a miracle. The news media says that the mutiny against Russia’s military leaders on Saturday June 24 shows Putin’s weakness. But that’s dead wrong. The mutiny shows Vladimir Putin’s strength. Why? On
Something startling is happening to aging. 90,000 Americans have reached the age of 100. Which means that you, too, may live that long. But how? Publicity for a new book on longevity has brought a 2012 study back into the news. In that study, researchers from Yeshiva University looked at 250 people 98 to
Two weeks ago, on March 30th, the Atlantic magazine published a story headlined “Why People Are Acting so Weird.” The article claimed that “Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents [on airplanes], and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently.” Peculiarly, the first example it gave was of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy
If the launch of SpaceX’s 100-passenger Starship on Thursday succeeds, it will radically change the relationship between life and space. Why? for the price of one NASA Artemis Moon Rocket launch, you could launch 2,000 Starships for the price of one Artemis Moon Rocket launch carrying three passengers to the moon, you could launch
In the early morning of Wednesday, March 22nd, China’s dictator for life Xi Jinping left Moscow after three days of meetings with Vladimir Putin. The get-together was calculated to be a move in the step-by-step process of replacing America as the leader of the global order. Replacing America with, you guessed it, China. And with
Two Iranians in their early twenties have just been sentenced to a longer period of time in jail than a murderer. What in the world could they have done to deserve this punishment? Social networking. On October 26th, the two Iranians, Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiancée, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, posted a video of themselves dancing in
On January 3rd, a new study on teens and social media hit the headlines in places like StudyFinds.org and the New York Times. The headline in StudyFinds was scary: it warned of a “social disaster.” And it explained that “Children who frequently check social media face significant brain changes.” But the headline was wrong. Dead wrong. Here’s
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on December 14th that “Russia’s Yars intercontinental ballistic missile has been loaded into a silo at the Kozelsk missile formation in the Kaluga Region in central Russia,” southwest of Moscow. With a 7,500 mile range, the Yars rocket is able to hit the United States. The Yars carries multiple independently targetable
On April 14th, roughly six months ago, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Then he pulled out of the deal. Now he is pulling back in again, offering to buy Twitter at the original price if Twitter will drop a lawsuit it filed against him after he backed out. Meanwhile folks on
On Tuesday, September 13, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, came out of a subway station in central Tehran, walked through a park, and in that park was arrested by Iran’s Moral Security Police. The morality policemen bundled her into their standard white and green Morality Patrol van. And, according to Amini’s family, they beat
According to a leading figure in the defense community, a retired general who prefers to remain anonymous, space can save us from the next Ukraine. Here’s how. Says the general, “Imagine this. At 7:00 AM, Russia moves troops across the border into Ukraine. Fifteen minutes later a pre-loaded SpaceX starship lifts off with a payload
Western intelligence agencies believe that Russia is prepared to invade the Ukraine at any minute. American and British spy agencies have spotted more than 190,000 Russian soldiers surrounding the Ukraine on three sides with fighter jets, transport planes, rockets, helicopters, artillery, and tanks. What’s more, we’ve all seen the satellite images. So many of us
Covid is making people depressed, lonely, drug-addicted, and suicidal. According to a new ABC-Washington Post poll, covid has had a dramatic impact on the way you and I lead our lives. Says the Post, “Roughly 9 in 10 say they are staying home ‘as much as possible’ and are practicing social distancing to lessen the
Thought AI, an adaptive artificial intelligence systems development company, has contributed 1 million of its THT cryptocurrency coins to the recently launched Howard Bloom Institute, an international think tank led by Howard Bloom, the man dubbed by Britain’s Channel 4 TV as the “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,
Howard Bloom and Howard Bloom Institute leader Alex Watler will announce the Howard Bloom Institute’s debut Wednesday night at 1:10 am on 545 radio stations via the highest-rated overnight talk radio show in North America, Coast to Coast Am. Honorary advisory board members of the Howard Bloom Institute include a former Governor, five scientists, a MacArthur
A former governor, five scientists, two theater luminaries, and important figures from the US, India, Vienna, Spain, and the United Kingdom, that’s the honorary advisory board of the new Howard Bloom Institute, an institute dedicated “to helping us see everything inside of us and everything around us in a whole new way” by spreading the insights