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Howard Bloom has never been interested in safe ideas. His work lives in the uncomfortable space where science, culture, psychology, and history collide—and where most thinkers politely stop asking questions. Bloom keeps going. For decades, he’s built a reputation as a radical systems thinker, futurist, and cultural critic who doesn’t just...

On Monday December 8th the Oxford University Press Journal SLEEP Advances made a startling claim: that, as one headline put it, getting less than seven hours of sleep is linked to shorter life expectancy. In other words, get less than seven hours of sleep per night and you shorten your life....

The big question in astrophysics right now is whether our solar system has been penetrated by a giant spaceship.  A spaceship from a distant solar system. And from a distant civilization. A spaceship that deliberately cruised past three separate planets, then hid behind the sun.  Why swing behind the sun? Says Harvard...

We are witnessing an attempt to destroy America’s constitutional democracy. Something has happened that is very useful to the constitution destroyers:  the murder on September 15th in Utah of high profile MAGA promoter Charlie Kirk, leader of the movement Turning Point USA. Thanks to that murder, as Fox’s News’ Jesse Watters says,...

Wednesday, April 29th, in New York State’s capital, Albany, Governor Kathy Hochul and the leaders of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate announced an agreement on a whopping $254 billion state budget—a budget that still requires approval by the New York State Legislature. Buried in...

The evening of April 22nd at 7:08 pm the Washington news publication Axios revealed the hidden details of Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Ukraine, his “final offer.”  What did our president’s peace plan require? That Ukraine recognizes as Russian a key piece of Ukrainian territory that Russia seized by force...

In the wake of Covid, are Americans losing their minds? Sort of. We are going crazy for animal stories.  Why? It could be because stories of insanity among humans are just too hard for us to take. In the Associated Press’s list of the 31 oddest stories of the week, fully...

The Internet has been under constant attack for the last 20 years as the source of all of our emotional woes, from depression, cyberbullying, and suicide to negative body image. The anti-Internet attack has been so fierce that nine states have tried to ban social media access for kids under...

Two days ago a story showed up in the New York Post, AOL, Yahoo, The Indiana Gazette, Reddit, and a dozen more media outlets announcing that 38% of American workers never felt more uninspired at work.   Yes, uninspired. And the pollsters recommended refreshing workers by providing them with exercise...

On Wednesday, April 24th, the Senate passed a TikTok bill. And Joe Biden signed it into law. The new law says that ByteDance, the company that founded and owns TikTok, must sell TikTok to an American purchaser within nine months or TikTok will be banished from the Apple and Google...

Thomas S. Dee, an education professor at Stanford University, has just released the results of a study he carried out in partnership with the Associated Press.  The study’s topic is student absenteeism in 40 states, and the results are disturbing. The Dee study concludes that 6.5 million students are chronic absentees.  They...

Howard Bloom, a scientific thinker on "a quest for the dark underbelly where new myths and movements are made," worked with Michael Jackson in 1982 and 1983 and found Jackson to be "the most astonishing human I have ever met." Bloom wrote up his experiences in his book “Einstein, Michael...

According to a headline from England’s Daily Mail, “American adults now spend more time watching Netflix and other digital platforms than viewing traditional TV for the first time ever.” The information for this story and a dozen others like it come from a press release put out on the morning...

Early in the morning of November 7th, Vladimir Putin chaired an online meeting of his Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and made some disturbing statements about nuclear weapons. But before we get into Putin’s latest nuclear end-of-the-world scenario, it’s important to understand what Putin’s Council...