Throughout the past two decades, researcher Gloria Mark, PhD, has observed a continuous decline in the human attention span [1]. In 2004, the average attention span was recorded at approximately 2.5 minutes. Only eight years later, it decreased to 1.25 minutes. In 2023, that number shrunk to a meager 47 seconds, less than a third […]
Shifting Gears: Leaving a Legacy in a Perpetually Changing Field
In 1926, Danish physician Johannes Fibiger concluded years of cancer research with the determination that microscopic parasites were the cause of cancerous tumors in rats. For his accomplishments, Fibiger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology. Fibiger’s legacy was cemented as one of his generation’s most successful scientists, but his seemingly secure legacy quickly fell […]
Dr. Douglas Heimburger: An Interview on Faith, Health, and Healthcare during the Pandemic
Transcribed and edited by Grace Liu, Andrew Warren, & Yuhang Zhang What can the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about health and healthcare? What deeper realities have been uncovered about the nature of suffering and true flourishing? How can the Christian worldview offer insight and hope in this current public health crisis? We recently spoke with […]
Shifting our thoughts: Lessons from sufferers of OCD
Our brains work daily to absorb and sort information, differentiating what is important from the clutter. On the daily, we are exposed to a plethora of both positive and negative input and media. For most people, the process of figuring out what is worth paying attention to is automatic and effortless. For others, however, and […]
Jason Thacker: An Interview on Artificial Intelligence and Technology
Jason Thacker serves as the Creative Director and Associate Research Fellow at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is also a founding member of AI and Faith, a consortium of faith communities and academic institutions whose mission is to bring the world’s major religions into discussion regarding the ethics […]
An Examination of Carbon Dating
It is accepted by many scientists, teachers, students, the media, and the average well-informed modern person, that billions of years ago our universe came into being by rapidly expanding and cooling, and some blob of matter congealed into our Earth, that millions of years ago life appeared and evolved, producing man hundreds of thousands of […]