Sean Carroll, Catholicism, & Unfalsifiable Metaphysics

One of the most famous of Thomas Aquinas' arguments is one for a “prime mover” or an “unmoved mover”. The argument itself isn’t really important per-se, it’s actually air tight in terms of premises following to their conclusions. The issue is the Aristotelian metaphysics it assumes and is based on. Suffice it to say, if you’re using the kind of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics favored by modern day Thomists, the conclusion readily follows. What atheists disagree with in terms of the Thomists is the metaphysics they assume.
Read more: http://counterapologist.blogspot.com/2016/08/sean-carroll-catholicism-unfalsifiable.html?source=Snapzu

"Stranger Things" and the Psychic Nosebleed

Where did we get the idea that using psychic or telekinetic powers makes a person's nose bleed?
Read more: http://daily.jstor.org/stranger-things-and-psychic-nosebleeds/?source=Snapzu

NOAA Ocean Explorer: Battle of the Atlantic: Archaeology of an Underwater WWII Battlefield:

NOAA and its research partners are surveying, for the first time since they sank more than 70 years ago, the remains of two ships that were involved in a convoy battle off North Carolina during World War II. The “Battle of the Atlantic: Archaeology of an Underwater WWII Battlefield” expedition is part of an ongoing research project to document and highlight a little-known, but important, chapter in the nation’s maritime history.
Read more: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/16battlefield/background/media_resources/media_resources.html?source=Snapzu

Smack in the Suburbs

Avon Lake,Ohio is an upmarket suburb of a US city - but opiate addiction is tearing apart the fabric of the neighborhood.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37224075?source=Snapzu

First GMO ever produced by genetic engineering poisoned thousands of Americans

The dangers of GMOs in the present day are the subject of much debate, but few can deny that the first genetically engineered (GE) products were truly dangerous. In fact, few people can talk about it at all, because most people have never even heard about these early products or the damage they caused. Alliance for Bio-Integrity executive director Steven M. Druker relayed this information is his book, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science...
Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/055133_GMOs_scientific_fraud_FDA.html?source=Snapzu

SIT - Short Documentary Film

A film about purpose in life, seen through the eyes of a Buddhist monk and his son.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/sit-short-documentary-film?source=Snapzu

Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally

"It's like modern-day slavery."
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration?source=Snapzu

Why scientists are losing the fight to communicate science to the public

Scientists and science communicators are engaged in a constant battle with ignorance. But that’s an approach doomed to failure, says Richard P Grant. (Aug. 23, 2016)
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2016/aug/23/scientists-losing-science-communication-skeptic-cox?source=Snapzu

Why we should celebrate shyness

From Charles Darwin to Keira Knightley and Morrissey, the socially awkward and anxious have changed the world for the better. Have we forgotten the benefits of being shy? This is the paradox at the heart of a new book, "Shrinking Violets," by the cultural historian Joe Moran, which explores shyness in politics, literature and psychology.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160830-why-we-should-celebrate-shyness?source=Snapzu

Celebrate 100 years of National Parks by exploring them with these apps and gear

It’s been 100 years since the founding of the National Park Service, and we’ve round up the gear to bring along for discovering the beautiful landscapes and to safely get out of them.
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/must-have-gear-to-bring-to-a-national-park/?source=Snapzu

100 Honest Women Portraits To Fight The Stereotypes Of Beauty

The photo series Underneath We Are Women, is a fight against standardization of beauty, that honestly depicts women of all professions, of all kinds of shapes and sizes. In the photos, they're broken free of judgements and opinions of the others, living their life and making the most of it.
Read more: http://www.ufunk.net/en/photos/underneath-we-are-women/?source=Snapzu

Andersonville Prison Commemoration

Andersonville Prison Commemoration A “Funeral for 13,000” was held at the Andersonville National Cemetery to remember the Union soldiers who died in captivity there during the Civil War. Keynote speakers included Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey and University of Akron history professor Lesley Gordon. The ceremony included a ceremonial casket on a horse-drawn limber and caisson, the Pledge of Allegiance, an invocation, poetry, the Maneuver School of Excellence Brass Quintet, wreath presentations, rendering of honors by the Georgia Army National Guard, taps, and a benediction.
Read more: https://www.c-span.org/video/?328089-1/andersonville-prison-commemoration?source=Snapzu

Hydroponics at home: It doesn’t have to be hard, or ugly

Just don’t start with tomatoes.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/hydroponics-at-home-it-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-or-ugly/2016/08/23/4a24d0f2-5fd6-11e6-af8e-54aa2e849447_story.html?source=Snapzu

Thousands to receive basic income in Finland: A trial that could lead to the greatest societal transformation of our time

Finland is about to launch an experiment in which a randomly selected group of 2,000–3,000 citizens already on unemployment benefits will begin to receive a monthly basic income of 560 euros (approx. $600). That basic income will replace their existing benefits. The amount is the same as the current guaranteed minimum level of Finnish social security support.
Read more: http://www.demoshelsinki.fi/en/2016/08/30/thousands-to-receive-basic-income-in-finland-a-trial-that-could-lead-to-the-greatest-societal-transformation-of-our-time/?source=Snapzu

Did you know dogs can donate blood, too? Calling all hero’s

In the USA; 46% of US homes have a dog, yet I have never heard any advertisements for it. I had to inquire after I read about it. My dog donated, it was quick, easy and he got so much attention and treats.
Read more: http://factoverfallacy.com/info/dogs-can-donate-blood/?source=Snapzu

Like Hot Peppers?

A farmer checks hot peppers laid out on a road to dry under the sun before selling them to factories producing pepper products in Kilis province, Turkey August 29, 2016
Read more: http://snapzu.com/jcscher/like-hot-peppers?source=Snapzu

Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin review – how women walk

This elegant book considers defiant female walkers from Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Woolf to the author, and celebrates the freedom of being on the move.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/25/flaneuse-by-lauren-elkin-review-how-women-walk?source=Snapzu

The Decline of Tube Feeding for Dementia Patients

The proportion of nursing home residents with advanced dementia who receive a feeding tube has dropped more than 50 percent, a new national study has found.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/health/tube-feeding-dementia-patients.html?source=Snapzu

Aphantasia: When Your Mind's Eye Fails You

'Aphantasia' describes a phenomenon neuroscientists have only been studying for a few years: the inability to "see" images in the mind.
Read more: http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aphantasia-the-inability-to-form-mental-images?source=Snapzu

How Does the Language of Headlines Work? The Answer May Surprise You.

How headlines have changed as media has evolved -- and how they haven't.
Read more: http://daily.jstor.org/how-does-the-language-of-headlines-work-the-answer-may-surprise-you/?source=Snapzu

The bogus claims of the NRA's favorite social scientist, debunked

Despite the effusive praise from gun advocates, and respectful treatment by the mainstream media, The War on Guns is riddled with errors and falsehoods that undermine most, if not all, of its major claims.
Read more: http://www.vox.com/2016/8/30/12700222/nra-social-scientist-claims-debunked?source=Snapzu

4 Millennial Men with 4 Very Different Incomes Open Up About the Lives They Can Afford

The median income for American millennials is $35,300. That's according to the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, conducted every three years, which also finds a generation—roughly those aged 22 to 35—who are mired in college loans, less invested in the stock market, and far less likely to own a home than previous generations.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/money/news/a48020/four-millennial-men-four-incomes/?source=Snapzu

Gardens: living flypaper

Carnivorous plants to take down insect pests
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/28/gardens-by-james-wong-living-flypaper?source=Snapzu

30 Reasons Why You Should Escape Your 9-5 Routine (ignore the last “Don’t know where to start?” part)

If you’ve ever dreamed about working for yourself, here are 30 good reasons that might help motivate you to take the steps to plan your escape.
Read more: http://escaping925.net/30-reasons-why-you-should-escape-your-9-5-routine?source=Snapzu

Influence of the Reconstruction Amendments

Historians and legal scholars discuss the influence of the 13th and 14th Amendments on modern American society. These were ratified during the Reconstruction era and dealt with rights for freed…
Read more: https://www.c-span.org/video/?400212-3/influence-reconstruction-amendments?source=Snapzu

Going to Pot

Humboldt County's marijuana boom is destroying a unique redwood forest ecosystem and killing some of California's rarest wildlife. Now veteran pot farmers are fighting the ‘green rush’ to make cannabis cultivation truly sustainable. By Todd Woody. (Apr. 18, 2016)
Read more: http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/04/18/greenrush?source=Snapzu

Solar powered pipe desalinates seawater into drinkable fluid.

For the 2016 land art generator initiative, Khalili engineers propose a solar powered pipe to desalinate seawater into drinkable fluid.
Read more: http://www.designboom.com/art/solar-powered-pipe-2016-land-art-generator-initiative-khalili-engineers-08-25-2016/?source=Snapzu

A Critical History Asks, What Does It Mean to Be Modern?

Steven B. Smith’s “Modernity and Its Discontents” is a survey of Western intellectual history from Machiavelli to Saul Bellow.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/books/review/modernity-and-its-discontents-steven-b-smith.html?source=Snapzu

Three Years of Nights

Violence convulses the city after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars. By Peter Nickeas.
Read more: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/September-2016/Peter-Nickeas/?source=Snapzu

Mom Arrested for Leaving Her Children, 8 & 9, Home Alone for 45 Minutes

A mother is facing charges for leaving her children home alone for 45 minutes while she left to go pick up dinner. Susan Terrillion, 55, was arrested last week after leaving her 8- and 9-year-old kids alone at their vacation rental in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Police said that they received reports of two children left alone and unsupervised. When they arrived on the scene, a neighbor said the two kids and their dogs ran in front of his car. He stopped to help the children get control of their pets, and that's when he learned that they were alone.
Read more: http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/27/mom-arrested-leaving-her-children-home-alone-45-minutes?source=Snapzu

9 Incredible U.S. Lighthouses to Visit

For scenic views and a look at history, plan to see these amazing American lighthouses
Read more: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/photos/9-incredible-us-lighthouses-to-visit/split-rock-lighthouse-minnesota#top-desktop?source=Snapzu

Dog becomes legendary for daily walks to town

The lumbering figure comes into view shortly after sunrise. His pace is steady, his resolve determined on his four mile walk up Highway 84. Bruno, a wandering, wooly, wolf of a dog, is on his way to town. “It's just been his routine as far back as I know,” says Sharon Rouse, who watches Bruno’s arrivals from the picture window of the Hansen Realty office, where she works the reception desk.
Read more: http://www.kare11.com/news/local/land-of-10000-stories/dog-becomes-legendary-for-daily-walks-to-town/304369559?source=Snapzu

Kubo and the Two Strings: Behind the Scenes Time Lapse

Wow!
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Appaloosa/kubo-and-the-two-strings-behind-the-scenes-time-lapse?source=Snapzu

Battle Over Reconstruction

Author and historian Mark Summers looks at the political battles surrounding Reconstruction and how the era has been understood through history.
Read more: https://www.c-span.org/video/?410238-3/battle-reconstruction?source=Snapzu

Caddies: The Key to Tea

A short history of how the modern tea caddy has evolved through the years.
Read more: https://www.teabox.com/blog/caddies-key-tea?source=Snapzu

Are We Really So Modern?

For all  our technological breakthroughs, we’re  still wrestling with the same basic questions as the Enlightenment philosophers. By Adam Kirsch.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/05/the-dream-of-enlightenment-by-anthony-gottlieb?source=Snapzu

Ancient Zen Advice On How Not To 'Be A Jerk'

While author Brad Warner's approach to 13th-century Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen may be unorthodox, its freshness might be exactly what the doctor ordered, says Adam Frank.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/08/28/490811579/ancient-zen-advice-on-how-not-to-be-a-jerk?source=Snapzu

A Chocolate Pill? Scientists To Test Whether Cocoa Extract Boosts Health

Chocolate lovers may agree cocoa is the food of the gods, but how strong is the evidence that it boosts heart health? Researchers are recruiting for a new study aimed at answering this question. The capsules tested will contain about as much extract as you'd get from eating about 1,000 calories of dark chocolate, without the calories.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/29/491195004/a-chocolate-pill-scientists-to-test-whether-cocoa-extract-boosts-health?source=Snapzu

Stackable Potato Chips | How It's Made

Read more: http://snapzu.com/Appaloosa/stackable-potato-chips-how-its-made?source=Snapzu

The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World

The dark trade of collecting books used to get really messy.
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fierce-forgotten-library-wars-of-the-ancient-world?source=Snapzu

Reconstruction and Southern Women

Scholars talk about perceptions of women, both white and black, at the end of the Civil War and during the Reconstruction era.
Read more: https://www.c-span.org/video/?410244-3/reconstruction-southern-women?source=Snapzu

Mediterranean diet better for the heart than taking statins, major study suggests

A Mediterranean diet could be better than statins at reducing the risk of an early death for millions of Britons, research suggests.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/28/eating-a-mediterranean-diet-is-better-for-the-heart-than-taking/?source=Snapzu

‘Hot’ Sex & Young Girls

Zoë Heller reviews “American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers” by Nancy Jo Sales, and “Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape” by Peggy Orenstein.
Read more: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/hot-sex-young-girls/?source=Snapzu

Autistic boy receives 20,000 birthday cards after mother's Facebook appeal

An autistic boy has received tens of thousands of birthday cards from strangers all over the world, after his mother made a public appeal. Karen Jones, 49, from Exmouth, posted a request for help on Facebook after her son Ollie told her he loved opening cards and had made his own to open on his 15th birthday. Writing on a community page, she said: “He’s just told me he love opening cards to [the] extent he’s made himself a couple.”
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/autism-autistic-boy-birthday-cards-mother-appeal-ollie-jones-karen-exmouth-a7213981.html?source=Snapzu

Civil War's Influence on Medicine

Author and professor Shauna Devine talks about Civil War medicine and how it influenced the future of American medical science.
Read more: https://www.c-span.org/video/?400365-1/civil-wars-influence-medicine?source=Snapzu

New Books Coming Out Late August and September

Look for new books by Louise Penny, Tom Wolfe, Dav Pilkey and Ransom Riggs.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/08/28/books-new-and-noteworthy/88961544/?source=Snapzu

Divorce rates double when people start watching porn

There’s an oft-quoted rule on the internet: “If it exists, there is porn of it.” Even if that’s an exaggeration, there’s no question that men and women have been consuming more sexually explicit content since the world went online. Now, a new study looks at how this consumption might affect marriage in the United States. The study, a working paper presented this week at the 2016 American Sociological Association’s annual meeting, suggests that men and women who begin to consume pornography partway through their marriages are more likely to get a divorce than their non–porn-consuming peers.
Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/divorce-rates-double-when-people-start-watching-porn?source=Snapzu

Fun in Belgium...

Character by Time, Letters by Venom
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Maternitus/fun-in-belgium?source=Snapzu

New Field Guide Explains NYC’s Weird Antennaes, Wiring and Some of Its Cameras

A field guide to all the equipment glued to the sides of the city’s buildings and atop its lamp posts.
Read more: http://observer.com/2016/08/ingrid-burrington-networks-of-new-york-melville-house/?source=Snapzu

Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’

Most of the world’s mathematicians fall into just 24 scientific 'families', one of which dates back to the fifteenth century. The insight comes from an analysis of the Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP), which aims to connect all mathematicians, living and dead, into family trees on the basis of teacher–pupil lineages, in particular who an individual's doctoral adviser was.
Read more: http://www.nature.com/news/majority-of-mathematicians-hail-from-just-24-scientific-families-1.20491#/b1?source=Snapzu