Darren Hewer
When the Money Stops
What do you do when not only the money stops, but you realize you have serious personal problems to deal with as well? After building a multi-million dollar company, Ron Varela suddenly began to encounter both business and financial struggles. First an accident and resulting lawsuit cost him most of his net worth. Then, struggling with an alcohol...
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Hidden in Plain Sight You've probably seen it dozens, if not hundreds of times: The...
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Parting the Red Sea: With Science? Scientists in the US are working to confirm the plausibility of...
Which question would you most like to find an answer to? According to search engine Ask.com (formerly known as Ask Jeeves, which is still its moniker in the UK) the following are the top ten "unanswerable" questions: 1. What is the meaning of life? 2. Is there a God? 3. Do blondes have more fun? 4. What is the best diet? 5. Is there anybody...
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Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up? That's the question an article in the New York Times recently asked. It seems that it's taking people longer to grow up. Psychologists have even come up with a new term for it: "emerging adulthood." It’s happening all over, in all sorts of families, not just young people moving...
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Sometimes things hide in plain sight. When I was a kid, I never paid much attention to bus stop signs. I was totally oblivious to their existence. But when I decided to start taking the bus I saw bus stop signs everywhere! When I actually started looking for them, I saw them on the same streets that I walked every day. They did not suddenly...
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How can students prepare themselves for success in college & university English classes? Surprisingly, a study has found "virtual unanimity" among English professors at top US schools regarding the importance of studying the Bible. "The survey reveals that English professors surveyed at leading universities -- including Yale, Harvard, Princeton...
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“All thinking men are atheists.” Ernest Hemingway, author “Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind …” Sir Isaac Newton, physicist Are “all thinking men” really atheists as Hemingway asserted? If so, it would seem that religion and science would indeed be enemies. However, history does not give us much support for this...
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Has popular novelist Anne Rice abandoned her faith? CNN's religion blog presents the following summary of Anne Rice's recent Facebook posts regarding her faith: Legendary author Anne Rice has announced that she’s quitting Christianity. The “Interview with a Vampire” author, who wrote a book about her spirituality titled "Called Out of Darkness:...
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What came first, the chicken or the egg? The cheeky title of the CNN news article is "Scientists solve chicken and egg riddle*" ... that asterisk, like a bad newspaper ad for a misleading airplane ticket sale, leads to a caveat in smaller text in the main article that simple reads: "Editor's Note: *Maybe" After the publication of the rather...
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