Perspectives
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Tiny Implants Could Give Humans Self-Healing Superpowers
Elizabeth Palermo
September 18, 2014
Wolverine, Ghost Rider, the Incredible Hulk--all of these characters have at least one awesome trait in common: the ability to heal themselves. And now, the Pentagon wants to give ordinary people this superhuman capability.
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Franklin Graham ‘Can’t Help But Wonder’ If End Times Are Near
Michael Gryboski
September 4, 2014
The Rev. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, has questioned whether news coming out of the Middle East is a sign of the end times.
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UN: Number of world’s displaced over 50 million
Barara Surk and John Heilprin
June 20, 2014
For the first time since the World War II era, the number of people forced from their homes worldwide has surged past 50 million, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.
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Are the End Times Upon Us?
Billy Hallowell
May 2, 2014
Is mankind evolving into a more peaceful and prosperous people--or are we on a path toward ever-increasing moral depravity, social chaos and destruction?
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China on Course to Become ‘World’s most Christian Nation’ within 15 years
Tom Phillips
April 19, 2014
It is said to be China’s biggest church and on Easter Sunday thousands of worshippers will flock to this Asian mega-temple to pledge their allegiance--not to the Communist Party, but to the Cross.
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The Future of Brain Implants
By Gary Marcus and Christof Koch
March 14, 2014
What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant, no matter how loud? Or for a memory chip, wired directly into your brain’s hippocampus, that gave you perfect recall of everything you read? Or for an implanted interface with the Internet that automatically translated a clearly articulated silent thought (“the French sun king”) into an online search that digested the relevant Wikipedia page and projected a summary directly into your brain?