AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into CatholicAvatarAvatarMar 20A former nun explains why she ran away from her 'Cloistered' lifeverified_publisherNPR - Terry GrossCatherine Coldstream didn't grow up planning to become a nun. Coldstream was from London, and had lived in Paris where she studied composition and performed experimental music. But after her father died when she was 24, she remembers feeling "utterly thrown and completely bereft." She began …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into KnowledgeFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow to adapt the “theology of work” to Succession-era capitalismbigthink.com - Jonny ThomsonIn 1904, the German sociologist Max Weber wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. In the book, Weber argued that the paragon of …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into SpaceFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAsk Ethan: How did matter come to exist in our Universe?bigthink.com - Ethan SiegelEverywhere we look in the Universe, we find structure of some sort: planets, stars, gas, dust, plasma, and galaxies galore. Every indication we have …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into ReligionAvatarAvatarFranklin Graham says Pope Francis doesn't have the right to bless 'what God calls sin'The Christian Post - Katelyn WebbThe Rev. Franklin Graham slammed Pope Francis for approving a measure that will allow Roman Catholic priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples, …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into KnowledgeFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow should we be thinking about the future?bigthink.com - Kmele Foster, Sean Carroll, Nina Lanza, Kevin KellyThe future is coming, whether we’re ready or not. Physicist Sean Carroll, planetary scientist Nina Lanza, and futurist Kevin Kelly are three …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into HealthFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe brain undergoes a great “rewiring” after age 40bigthink.com - Ross PomeroyIn a systematic review published last year in the journal Psychophysiology, researchers from Monash University in Australia swept through the …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into SpaceFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoExoplanet discoveries reveal Earth’s profound rarity in the cosmosbigthink.com - Marcelo GleiserWe are now well into a new era of astronomy, where distant planets (called exoplanets) are being detected at a fast clip. At last count, there have …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into SpaceFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo“Singularities don’t exist,” claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerrbigthink.com - Ethan SiegelHere in our Universe, whenever you gather enough mass together in a small enough volume of space, you’re bound to eventually cross a threshold: where …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into SpaceFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhat was it like when matter defeated antimatter?bigthink.com - Ethan Siegel13.8 billion years ago, at the moment of the Big Bang, the Universe was the hottest it’s ever been in history. Every single known particle existed in …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into SpaceFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAsk Ethan: Are singularities physically real?bigthink.com - Ethan SiegelOne of the most important advances in all of physics was the development of Einstein’s general relativity: our greatest and most predictively …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into RelationshipFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoUse This Simple Intimacy Concept To Attract People To Youyourtango.com - May PangI’m going to ask you to play a game of human observation with me. I’m going to describe two people to you, and you are going to guess which one has a …
AvatarOladimeji Olatunjiflipped into RelationshipAvatarAvatar8 Helpful Phrases That Make Your Partner Feel HeardFatherly - Adam BulgerMake it clear that you’re locked into what they’re saying. No matter the context, it’s frustrating to have your words fall on deaf ears. The feeling …