A person born in the US today, living the CDC’s current average of 79.0 years (Xu et al., 2026), will spend an estimated 126,000 hours on leisure screens: roughly 14 years of nonstop, 24-hour days. About 46,000 of those hours, around 5 years, go to social media. These are my own estimates, built by stitching
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Human suffering is widely acknowledged, yet its causes are debated. We often blame broken systems, corrupt leaders, dangerous ideologies, or irresponsible people. These explanations are not false, but they are incomplete. They identify where harm occurs without fully explaining why similar patterns recur across cultures, eras, and institutions. At the individual level, conflict frequently arises
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Modern political and cultural conflicts increasingly involve a mystifying fact: large groups of people who see the same videos, reports, and other information make radically different conclusions (Kahan et al., 2012; Iyengar & Westwood, 2014). One group sees injustice or tyranny, the other sees necessity or self‑defense. Social science research across psychology, sociology, and political
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AbstractOver the past 70 years, the prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, and common mental-health conditions has increased sharply. During the same period, Western diets shifted toward industrial formulations rich in ultra-processed foods (UPFs), seed oils, refined starches, and added sugars. Evidence from prospective cohort studies,
For many Christians, “end-times” teaching is not just one doctrine among many—it’s the lens for everything. Wars, elections, pandemics, natural disasters, digital currencies, microchips, and AI are all interpreted as “signs of the times.” Entire spiritual lives are oriented around trying to decode prophecy and anticipate catastrophic fulfillment. But when you actually look at the
If heaven is a destination, why does the Bible repeatedly speak of a ‘new earth’ rather than a ‘new sky’? The popular belief that upon death, the believer immediately ascends to a disembodied heaven, where the life of the soul begins, influences worship, funeral practices, and ethical perspectives. However, many argue that the biblical story
