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The Absence Epidemic By Howard Bloom

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...
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Human Superpowers By Howard Bloom

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...
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Putin’s Latest Nuclear Threat By Howard Bloom

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...
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Protests in Iran By Howard Bloom

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...
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Nuclear Fusion Company Raises $1.2 Billion

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...
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I hate to tell you this, but COVID IS BACK! By Howard Bloom

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...
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The Seven Secrets of Optimism By Howard Bloom

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...
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Criminals on the Supreme Court By Howard Bloom

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...
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Most Likely To Explode on the Scene in 2021

With the worst year in the history of mankind behind us, 2021 is looking more hopeful...hopefully. Although our future can never be wholly known, our present is like an arrow that can point the way ahead. Where it will land, we never know, nor what is waiting for us on...
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