Searchable News & Info From Reliable Online Sources.
- FDA approves Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine with limitations
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine with age restrictions after a six-week delay. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - The New Spiritual Leader on Campus
On May 24, 1961, the Yale University chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. led a group of Freedom Riders on a 160-mile bus ride from Atlanta, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregation laws. The voyage and his subsequent arrest turned Coffin into a national figure in the fight for civil rights. Yet even as he made headlines, Coffin remained committed to another, quieter aspect of his role as a college chaplain. Over the course of his 18 years at Yale, he spent virtually every afternoon counseling students. They discussed relationships, academic worries, theological questions, and—for those eligible—the prospect of being drafted into the Vietnam War. A priest first and foremost, he considered it “a great privilege” to enter what he called “the secret garden of another person’s soul.”Today, at a moment when young people are much less likely to say they’re religious, you might think that the demand for college… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - Return of the ShamanManvir Singh’s new Shamanism: The Timeless Religion ranges widely, introducing us to all sorts of shamans and neo-shamans and proto-shamans. We meet the cigarette-loving tribal healers among the Mentawai people of Indonesia, whom Singh, an anthropologist, has studied since 2014. We meet the psychiatry and medicine professor at Johns Hopkins who reckons that his clinical interventions and against-the-odds healings are the stuff of classic shamanic practice. And we meet the money managers and “hedge wizards” who traffic quasi-shamanically with the capricious spirits of the global market.It’s a panoramic survey: Singh has done the fieldwork, the legwork, and the drugwork. (“Then, with the immediacy of waking up, my trip ended. I became aware of my surroundings. People were watching us through the doorway. Vomit was everywhere.”) But his book lacks something I need—namely, an account of how neo-shamanism and its visionary baggage have looped around into conspiracy theory and burn-it-down far-rightism.… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- A Phone That Blocks All of the Bad StuffOn a recent commute to work, I texted my distant family about our fantasy baseball league, which was nice because I felt connected to them for a second. Then I switched apps and became enraged by a stupid opinion I saw on X, which I shouldn’t be using anymore due to its advanced toxicity and mind-numbing inanity. Many minutes passed before I was able to stop reading the stupid replies to the stupid original post and relax the muscles of my face.This is the duality of the phone: It connects me to my loved ones, and sometimes I think it’s ruining my life. I need it and I want it, but sometimes I hate it and I fear it. Many people have to navigate this problem—and it may be at its worst for parents, who’ve recently been drowned in media suggesting that smartphones and social media might be harming their… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- Moody’s Pushes U.S. Out Of Elite ‘AAA’ Credit Club, Citing Rising Debt
On Friday, the agency changed its outlook on the U.S. to "stable" from "negative." ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - New blood test for Alzheimer’s approved by FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new blood test for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease in patients beginning to show cognitive decline. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
The Searchable USWebDaily.com and TheTopNews NewsBank Helps You Be Better Informed, Faster! Spread The Word.
