The Fifth Column

Contraception is akin to pica - eating things which are not nutritive (e.g., sand, rocks, wood chips). Pica is an eating disorder most commo...

Catholics who pay attention to the history of canon law have it easy. For the entire history of Western civilization, the legal age of marri...

“Privately, once the Anthropic delegation arrived at the Vatican, Mr. Olah and his team lobbied the Pope’s advisers to take the prospect of ...

Bacteria aren't as smart as people, but bacteria both help and kill billions of people each year. Bacteria in our guts keep us alive , b...

 Can AI ever be conscious? That's a theological question. If consciousness is purely a product of natural physical laws (chemistry, elec...

Christianity cannot survive contact with modernity. Islam survives contact with modernity primarily by rejecting everything associated with ...

People keep calling AI generated output "slop" Dudes and dudettes, listen closely: AI essays are the average output of all human b...

Why did Bibi pay Hamas over $1.8 billion using Qatari money? Why did the payments continue even though Israel clearly knew  the money was ...

Mathematics originally started as a religion. Pythagoras founded the Pythagorean Brotherhood , a secretive, cult-like society where mathemat...

Literacy is magic - a series of arcane rituals used as necromancy that allows you to listen to dead people. Literacy is a psychedelic drug -...