Help!I need somebodyHelp!Not just anybodyHelp!You know I need someoneHelp! Ok, so I am having a flashback to 1965 and the Beatles. I am sure many of you can relate, and for you youngsters, just Google it or ask Siri. We need your help in getting the word out! Forgetting my old age, we at TRIBUTE … More “Help Wanted” – 08/25/2025
The Void No Robot Can Fill In 2010, a company called Hanson Robotics spent more than a hundred hours interviewing a woman named Bina. They collected memories of her childhood, noted her emotional reactions and mannerisms, uploaded the data into a mechanical bust that looked like the real Bina, and then programmed the robot to … More The Void No Robot Can Fill
Today’s BreakPoint: COVID 19 is an Opportunity to Re-Define the Human Species? Lessons from the Coronavirus Part 12 JOHN STONESTREET WITH ROBERTO RIVERA Recently, the world learned that researchers at London’s Francis Crick Institute used CRISPR technology to genetically edit 18 embryos. Around half of the embryos suffered the kinds of major mutations and genetic damage that … More COVID 19 is an Opportunity to Re-Define the Human Species?
Tweeting Something Isn’t Necessarily Doing Something JOHN STONESTREET WITH MARIA BAER “You are not a social media handle. Don’t feel pressure to post and repost everything to show that you care. Advocate locally. Be incarnate.” Last week, a pair of activists launched a social media campaign that quickly went from advocacy to unintentional irony. To … More Tweeting Something Isn’t Necessarily Doing Something
Why We Shouldn’t Get Used to Online Church JOHN STONESTREET WITH SHANE MORRIS Last week, a pastor at a megachurch in Tampa, Florida was arrested for holding services in defiance of a ban on public gatherings. The very idea of the government arresting a pastor for holding worship services in America raised plenty of red … More Why We Shouldn’t Get Used to Online Church
Don’t Leave Kids to Their Own Devices . . . JOHN STONESTREET WITH SHANE MORRIS The stats are sobering. According to the American Psychological Association, the average age of a child’s first exposure to pornography is 13 years old, with some seeing it as young as five. According to another survey, 42 percent of children have been … More Don’t Leave Kids to Their Own Devices . . .
January 29, 2020 by: Gene Edward Veith Jr. Two Sides of Technology As is so often the case, technology can be used for altruistic ends. Eliminating a genetic disease by clipping the problematic gene from a strand of DNA is surely a legitimate extension of medical surgery. Biological engineering is also being applied to agriculture, adding … More The Core Problem with Genetic Engineering
It’s Time for Smartphone Sanity JOHN STONESTREET WITH MARIA BAER When iPhones first hit the market in 2007, they were cool but clunky. Since then, they’ve gotten smaller, then sleeker, then bigger again. Then they added a camera, then a better one, now three of them. These things are always changing. They’re always getting better. … More It’s Time for Smartphone Sanity
Take Away Your Phone and What Is Left? A Photographer’s Disturbing Pictures 12/18/19 John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera Five years ago, photographer Eric Pickersgill and his wife, Angie, were lying in bed, backs turned to one another, looking at their phones. When Pickersgill dozed off, his phone slid from his hand and hit the floor. The sound … More Take Away Your Phone and What Is Left?
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