At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why. The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It ...

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A recently revealed change in covert action authority may presage an escalation in the ongoing cyberwars and the distinct possibilities of excessively provocative U.S. action, retaliation on U.S. soil ...

Throughout our history, people have challenged each other’s views and ideas. However, since the invention of the internet, it has become remarkably easy to publicly criticize someone for their words ...

Written by Lance R. Canada, as originally published in The Reverse Review. The HECM program certainly has its challenges, but this program is indeed worth fixing, oiling, adjusting and augmenting. It ...

I grew up in Missouri where, like the old South, the Democratic Party dominated politics during most of the 20th century. During the '50s there was a saying that went like this: “Roosevelt proved that ...

It’s a funny thing about pendulums. Once they switch direction, they go for a good while. And it looks like we’re in the midst of an implacable post-testing, post-accountability swing. Ideas that five ...