by Ethos Institute | Dec 15, 2014 | Pulse
December 2014 Pulse At Johns Hopkins University, neurosurgeons and biomedical engineers collaborated to create tiny, biodegradable ‘nanoparticles’ that can transport DNA to brain cancer cells in mice. These scientists hope that one day they will be able to load these...
by Ethos Institute | Dec 1, 2014 | Pulse
December 2014 Pulse In May this year, about 50 members of the Satanic Temple dressed in black ropes held a black mass at a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to the BBC report, dated 19 May 2014, the satanists wanted to conduct the ceremony on...
by Ethos Institute | Nov 17, 2014 | Pulse
November 2014 Pulse Almost sixty years ago, the Romanian philosopher Mircea Elaide perceptively noted that certain physical spaces in many traditional religions are regarded as sacred. However, modernity with its corrosive secularism has robbed us of the sacramental...
by Ethos Institute | Nov 7, 2014 | Pulse
November 2014 Pulse The title of this article is inspired by the third instalment of the wildly successful Terminator franchise directed by Jonathan Mostow, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger starred (for the last time) as the humanoid whose mission is to protect John...
by Ethos Institute | Oct 20, 2014 | Pulse
October 2014 Pulse On 14 July this year, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to allow women to become bishops. This decision, which was made some twenty years after the Anglican Church ordained its first women priests in 1992, has finally and completely...
by Ethos Institute | Oct 2, 2014 | Pulse
October 2014 Pulse José Padiha’s recent stylish ‘reboot’ of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 B-Grade movie Robocop is perhaps one of the more successful remakes in this genre. To be sure, Padiha and his screenwriter Joshua Zetumer have much more material to work with than...
