From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it.
In the wake of socialism’s demise and liberalism’s loss of direction, new ideas are needed for the next major realignment of the social and political domain. Making a unique contribution to the idea of ‘the commons’, this book offers a radical form of direct democracy with real-world implications.
The Art of Manifesting: A Meditative Drawing Practice to Rewire Your Brain and Create Your Reality by Colette Baron-Reid, with contributions from Anna Denning, presents a meditative drawing practice that combines creativity, neuroscience, and intention to support personal transformation. The book introduces a gentle seven-step method using simple drawing, meditation, and reflection to help readers reshape habitual patterns and engage consciously with the process of manifestation.
“At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.”
~ Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life’s meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories. Wikipedia
ERIE, PA—Saying that every full-grain cowhide motorcycle jacket would help keep a brooding, wayward rebel warm through the cold weather months, a local charity announced Tuesday that it had begun its 10th annual leather coat drive for bad boys in need.
According to organizers, donations can be placed in drop boxes outside pool halls, 24-hour diners, and biker bars throughout town. Jackets are needed in all sizes, especially broad-shouldered and athletic fits, and may be harshly used, as tattered fabric reportedly lends bad boys an undeniable mystique. Statistics indicate the need is urgent, as a lack of proper leather apparel puts renegade youth populations at increased risk of frostbite, road rash, and looking like a doofus.
“This winter, we ask that you consider the outwardly tough, but deep down vulnerable, young men in our community by cleaning out your closets and setting aside any leather coats with prominent shoulder studs,” said Janet McGwin, who told reporters the charity, known as Bundle Up Our Bad Boys, works to ensure area hoodlums stay warm while loitering on street corners with their friends and hassling passersby. “Many bad boys have to make that single pack of cigs rolled up in their shirtsleeve last an entire day, and they struggle to access basic necessities like a black double-rider jacket with a sewn-in half belt.”
“It’s so sad to see them shivering in their plain white T-shirts while they rev their motorcycles in abandoned lots, slugging back extra whiskey to fend off the cold or simply smoking an unfiltered Pall Mall and staring off into the distance,” she continued. “Unfortunately, sleeve tattoos don’t keep a person’s arms warm.”
McGwin added that her group plans to collect at least 5,000 leather coats by the end of the month, ideally ones that have asymmetric zippers, snap-down lapels, or patches that say “Born to ride.” Also accepted are buckskin bomber jackets, as they can work too, depending on the style a bad boy is going for. In addition, the organization welcomes donations of fingerless gloves, Wayfarer sunglasses, fine-tooth combs, hair pomade, and switchblades.
Recipients from past leather coat drives confirmed these items were essential to retaining a sense of bad boy dignity. For local ne’er-do-well and high school dropout Tony Lockhart, having a fringed leather cruiser jacket with epaulets and zip-close sleeves has meant a new beginning.
“I love having this killer coat in the winter, especially when me and my buddies are cruising around and blasting tunes in my old Mustang, which doesn’t have any heat,” said Lockhart, stretching his lean frame over a pool table to sink a bank shot as he spoke to reporters about how he spends much of his time fixing up the muscle car, which has a faded King Cobra decal on the hood. “Bundle Up Our Bad Boys understands that when a guy like me looks good, he feels good. I’ve become more successful in all areas of my life, whether it’s picking up broads, fighting some jock who dissed me, or street racing at night around a deadly bend on the edge of town.”
At press time, the charity reported that it had attempted to begin delivering donated leather coats to those in need, but all the bad boys had hit the open road, tearing out of town for parts unknown and swearing never to return.
Without Several Beers In Him, ‘He Just Isn’t The Same Guy’
Published: February 6, 2026 (TheOnion.com)
NEW YORK—Expressing alarm at their friend’s deeply uncharacteristic behavior, concerned sources reported Tuesday that local alcoholic George Ralston wasn’t himself when he was sober. “George is normally such a loud, outgoing party animal, but when he hasn’t had a drink in a while, he becomes this completely different person,” said Ralston’s friend Joe O’Hara, adding that Ralston’s frightening transformation into someone with common sense and safe driving habits made him all but certain to ruin the night once he had a few pints of bitters and soda in him. “It’s like he’s a shell of the erratic boozehound we know and love. When I look into his lucid, focused eyes, it feels like a stranger staring back at me. It’s honestly sad to see him respecting everyone’s personal space and making a complete gentleman out of himself. Apparently these days he hardly ever wakes up in a hotel room in Atlantic City with no idea of how he got there anymore. That’s not the real George. The real George is 10 beers deep and picking a fight with a bouncer.” O’Hara added that the hardest part of confronting Ralston over his sober episodes was that his friend seemed to lose all memory of them upon returning to his usual self.
Reggaeton and Latin trap artist Bad Bunny is this year’s Super Bowl halftime show performer. The Onion sat down with the musician to discuss the upcoming show.
The Onion : How did you book the halftime show?
Bad Bunny: Roger Goodell is my cousin.
What can we expect from this year’s halftime show?
I’ve been practicing that magic trick where you pour a pitcher of milk into a rolled up newspaper and it disappears.
What do you say to those who claim you’re not American?
I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.
Any advice for young people trying to become musicians?
Just go for it. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re too charismatic and talented to succeed.
What message do you hope America takes away from your performance?
Circumcision. Is. Child. Abuse.
What’s next for you?
I’m going to eat a whole pizza while catching up on Pluribus.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 4, 2026 Paul Levy is author of The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, Awakened By Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father, and The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality. He has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for the past three decades. His website is https://www.awakeninthedream.com/ Here he shares his revelation that the implications of both quantum physics and Buddhism converge to an understanding that we are living in a shared dream. That which we conceptualize as physical reality is inseparable from consciousness itself. The darkness and apparent evil within the dream we call reality is a summons for us to awaken collectively so that we can actualize the power of our awareness to change the dream. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on April 24, 2020)
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 5, 2026 Philosophy Adam Crabtree, RP, is a trainer of psychotherapists and has a private therapy practice in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, He is author of From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing, Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality, Trance Zero: Breaking the Spell of Conformity, Evolutionary Love and the Ravages of Greed, and The Land of Hypnogogia. He is also coauthor of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, and he is coeditor of Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality. He proclaims his belief that Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) was the greatest philosopher of all time, because he understood more clearly than anyone else how previous philosophies and institutions undermined human freedom and human possibility. He highlights Nietzsche’s emphasis on the importance of psychological depth. He also reviews various biographical details and compares Nietzsche’s philosophy with that of his contemporary (although they never met) C. S. Peirce. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on August 2, 2020)
“If reproduction is ever to occur beyond Earth, it must do so with a clear commitment to safety, transparency and ethical integrity.”
What will the first families in space look like? (Image credit: Denis-Art/Getty Images)
As humanity moves from brief space missions toward longer stays — driven by commercial ambitions for moon bases and eventual Martian settlements — scientists are beginning to confront how the conditions of space may affect human reproduction.
A new study argues that the absence of clear evidence and shared standards around reproductive health beyond Earth has propelled the issue from an abstract possibility into what the authors describe as “urgently practical.”
Rather than advocating for conception in space, the study’s nine authors — experts in reproductive medicine, aerospace health and bioethics — say their goal is to identify foreseeable risks and highlight gaps in research and governance that could become problematic as human activity in space expands, before technological and commercial momentum outpaces ethical oversight.You may like
“As human presence in space expands, reproductive health can no longer remain a policy blind spot,” study co-author Fathi Karouia, a senior research scientist at NASA, said in a statement.
“International collaboration is urgently needed to close critical knowledge gaps and establish ethical guidelines that protect both professional and private astronauts — and ultimately safeguard humanity as we move toward a sustained presence beyond Earth.”
IVF in space?
More than half a century ago, two breakthroughs reshaped ideas about what was biologically and physically possible, the study notes, in reference to the first human landing on the moon and the first successful fertilization of a human egg outside the body through in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
“Now, more than half a century later, we argue in this report that these once-separate revolutions are colliding in a practical and underexplored reality,” Giles Palmer, a senior clinical embryologist at the International IVF Initiative who led the new study, said in the statement.
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“IVF technologies in space are no longer purely speculative,” Palmer added. “It is a foreseeable extension of technologies that already exist.”
Over that same period, spaceflight has evolved from an elite, male-dominated endeavour tied to national prestige into a rapidly expanding frontier shaped by commercial ventures and international collaboration. Alongside career astronauts, private citizens are now flying on commercial missions, while space agencies and companies are planning sustained human presence beyond low Earth orbit.
Meanwhile, assisted reproductive technologies have become more advanced, automated and accessible, the researchers say, yet fundamental biological questions about reproduction remain unanswered, particularly for long-duration missions.You may like
“As human activity shifts from short missions to sustained presence beyond Earth, reproduction moves from abstract possibility to practical concern,” Palmer said in the statement.
What scientists do know from limited laboratory experiments and astronaut data is that space presents a demanding environment for human biology. Exposure to cosmic radiation, altered gravity, disrupted circadian rhythms, psychological stress and prolonged isolation all pose potential risks to reproductive function in both women and men.
Radiation is among the most serious concerns. Unlike on Earth, where the atmosphere and magnetic field provide substantial protection, astronauts are exposed to galactic cosmic rays and solar radiation.
Reproductive tissues are particularly sensitive to DNA damage, the study notes, and the effects of cumulative radiation exposure on male fertility during extended missions represent what the authors describe as a “critical knowledge gap.”
There are currently no widely accepted, industry-wide standards for managing reproductive health risks in space, the study notes. The researchers highlight unresolved questions around preventing inadvertent early pregnancy during missions, understanding the fertility impacts of microgravity and radiation, and setting ethical boundaries for any future reproduction-related research beyond Earth.
“If reproduction is ever to occur beyond Earth,” the study notes, “it must do so with a clear commitment to safety, transparency and ethical integrity.”
This research is described in a paper published Feb. 3 in the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online.
Sharmila Kuthunur is an independent space journalist based in Bengaluru, India. Her work has also appeared in Scientific American, Science, Astronomy and Live Science, among other publications. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northeastern University in Boston.
“True happiness is uncaused and this cannot disappear for lack of stimulation. It is not the opposite of sorrow, it includes all sorrow and suffering.”
–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj, born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli (April 17, 1897 – September 8, 1981), was an Indian guru of nondualism, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya and Lingayat Shaivism. Wikipedia
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