SOME OF THE MOST epic stories from the ancient world deal with the wars of the gods. It’s not a coincidence that one of the most commonly used titles for God in the Bible is “Lord of hosts,” which literally means “Yahweh of armies.”Continue Reading

SCIENTISTS AT Cambridge and Cal Tech announced this week that they’ve created synthetic human embryos without the use of eggs or sperm. They say this could help research into genetic disorders; we wonder if there’s another agenda.Continue Reading

A tech writer discovered during a chat with Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing search engine that it displays an alternate personality—a “moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.”

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The Biden administration wants to send Patriot surface-to-air missiles and more American troops to Ukraine, a move the Russian embassy in Washington says may lead to “unpredictable consequences.”

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TERRITORIAL SPIRITS have influenced human politics for millennia. The princes of Persia and Greece are explicitly mentioned in theBook of Daniel, but it was understood in the ancient Near East that every city-state or tribal territory had its patron god.Continue Reading

Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi has filed for bankruptcy, blaming the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. Bitcoin is now down more than 70% from one year ago.

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