Music can serve a dual purpose in clinical care: It can help raise blood pressure in some settings and ease patient anxiety before procedures such as catheterization. Its effects are broad, engaging the brain’s reward...
A proposed rule to mandate monogamy among ordained clergy, including those in homosexual relationships, has prompted pushback from three committees of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The overture, which was submitted by the Presbytery of Sierra...
A new study is challenging the conventional wisdom that a small, daily dose of alcohol might be good for your health. The research, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, suggests that...
Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess. – The New York Times [Ed note: this may be behind a paywall.] I served as the chief information officer of the...
Now seems to be an especially precarious time for American colleges and universities. In recent months, American institutions of higher learning have been confronted with near-constant disruptions that threaten both their short-term operations and long-term...
Tim Challies provides a thoughtful review of his own experimentation with AI. He offers some helpful suggestions and (I think) wise cautions. Some time ago, I decided I ought to familiarize myself with AI and...
In 2024, Canada posted a total fertility rate of 1.25 children per woman, a historic low. This was down 0.02 from the previous year—also a historic low at the time. Canada is now considered among...
Not long ago, I was sitting in an airport when a family of four appeared. The little boy, who seemed about five, was having a meltdown I’d heard many times before. His mother was doing...
The idea that cancer progression or disease survival can be influenced by a positive attitude or by keeping up a “fighting spirit” isn’t grounded in scientific evidence, he and other doctors said. Anecdotally, however, “you’ll...
