By Leo P. Kadanoff1 February 2002, page 10 Games of chance are often used as conceptual models of random processes in nature. For example, an exhibit on the heart in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry includes a kind of pinball machine. After the balls bounce somewhat randomly through this machine, they fall into bins symbolizing the different states of health of one’s heart. One can bias...

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In order for the enemy, the Anti-Christ forces, to make Christian society ripe for takeover, they have to de-Christianize it by softening it; that is, making life easy, convenient, full of pleasures, amusements, and diversions. At the same time they have to ensure we become sick in mind, body, and spirit by polluting our minds with false ideologies, polluting our food and environment with chemi...

Between 500 BCE and 300 BCE, religions worldwide underwent a dramatic shift, emphasizing morality and asceticism for the first time. A new study suggests that the emergence of this new type of religion can be explained by increases in prosperity.