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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...

On Tuesday, September 13, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, came out of a subway station in central Tehran, walked through a park, and in that park was arrested by Iran’s Moral Security Police. The morality policemen bundled her into their standard white and green Morality Patrol van.  And, according...

TAE Technologies, a company co-founded in 1998 by Harry Hamlin, co-chair of the Howard Bloom Institute’s Why Save Western Civilization Initiative, has now raised $1.2 billion for its clean nuclear fusion effort in collaboration with Google. TAE has breakthrough approaches that it believes can allow it to deliver clean electricity...

In most of the United States, hospitalizations and deaths from Covid seem to be way, way down. Covid deaths nationwide are 522 a day, a tiny fraction of the nearly 3,900 a day in February. But things are not as quiet as they look. In Los Angeles County, Covid is...

On June 8th, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society published a Harvard study of 159,255 women. That is a huge number of study subjects. The Harvard research revealed a simple fact. Whether you are black, white, or Hispanic, optimism can help you live longer and reach beyond the age...

The NFT Stars team just sold the incredible “REO Plaque” Celebrity Drop created by The Howard Bloom Institute. Howard Bloom played a huge role as a music publicist, particularly in how the story of REO Speedwagon unfolded. At the time of their collaboration, REO Speedwagon released the Hi Infidelity album...

A crime is taking place before our very eyes. Three Supreme Court justices have committed perjury. All three tried to give the impression in their Senate confirmation hearings that if elevated to the highest bench in the land, they would not overturn Roe v. Wade. All three of them deliberately...