Click Here to Read: The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory: Did the virus spring from nature or from human error? By Carolyn Kormann in the New Yorker on October 12, 2021.
Zionism, and Sartre: Captain Alfred Dreyfus would have been 162 years old today
Click Here to Read: Dreyfus, Zionism, and Sartre: Captain Alfred Dreyfus would have been 162 years old today. His legacy on the left is dying, while the malice that targeted him is alive and well. BY David Mikis on the Tablet Website on October 08, 2021.
Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Image Henry Roger-Viollet Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Why simplicity works
Click Here to Read: Why simplicity works: Does the existence of a multiverse hold the key for why nature’s laws seem so simple? by Johnjoe McFadden on the Aeon website.
The 15 meter Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Image: NASA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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What If the Universe Had No Beginning?
The Scene of the Crime: A survivor of the Pittsburgh massacre returns to the synagogue where the shooting took place
Click Here to Read: The Scene of the Crime: A survivor of the Pittsburgh massacre returns to the synagogue where the shooting took place by Mark Oppenheimer on the Tablet website on October 05, 2021.
Plaque listing the names of the victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting. By the 9/11 Memorial in Jerusalem. Image: Rataube. Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.
Remembering Ndakasi, a beloved mountain gorilla
Click Here to Read: Remembering Ndakasi, a beloved mountain gorilla: Nat Geo photographer Brent Stirton reflects on the life of a famous orphaned mountain gorilla Story and Photographs by Stirton as told to Douglas Main on the National Geographic Website on October 8, 2021.
Mountain Gorilla (not Ndakasie) Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
On 80th Anniversary of Nazis’ Babi Yar Massacre, Newly Released Photos Shed Light
Click Here to Read and Listen to: On 80th Anniversary of Nazis’ Babi Yar Massacre, Newly Released Photos Shed Light: The National Library of Israel released the pictures that include the bones of victims, as Ukraine revamps its approach to the tragedy by Sam Sokol on the Ha’aretz on October 1, 2021.
Soviet POWs covering a mass grave after the Babi Yar massacre, October 1, 1941. Image: Johannes Hahle (1906-1944). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.