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Share this article Share this article GALESBURG, Ill., Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Knox College Board of Trustees is pleased to announce it has unanimously approved the appointment of C. Andrew (Andy) McGadney as the Colleges 20th president. He will begin his term as Knox College president on July 1, 2021, following the retirement of Knoxs current president, Teresa Amott, in June 2021. C. Andrew McGadney 20th President of Knox College C. Andrew McGadney Named 20th President of Knox Colleg...

Our weekly selection of links across the web. Scot McKnight Good morning folks! MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - No business can master a drive-thru like Chick-fil-A, and a restaurant manager is getting high praise for using the company’s method to help workers at a COVID-19 vaccination site after a computer glitch caused a traffic gridlock. Mayor Will Haynie said he was notified on Jan. 22 that traffic was backed up for an hour at the COVID-19 vaccination site at Seacoast Church. He called Chick-fil-A...

As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned ghost villages Cal Flyn © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images For many years it seemed that overpopulation was the looming crisis of our age. Back in 1968, the Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich infamously predicted that millions would soon starve to death in their bestselling, doom-saying book The Population Bomb; since then, neo-Malthusian rumblings of imminent disaster have been a continu...

Credit: iStock/Marcus Millo The global population could reach 10 billion by 2050; explosive population growth is contributing to a broad array of other challenges for the planet. Without immediate and drastic intervention, humans face a “ghastly future” — including declining health, climate devastation, tens of millions of environmental migrants and more pandemics — in the next several decades, according to an international team of 17 prominent scientists. In a paper published Jan. 13 i...

UCLA’s Daniel Blumstein and a global team of scientists point to environmental, population and political challenges.

Without immediate and drastic intervention, humans face a “ghastly future” — including declining health, climate devastation, tens of millions of environmental migrants and more pandemics — in the next several decades, according to an international team of 17 prominent scientists. In a paper published Jan. 13 in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science, the researchers cite more than 150 scientific studies and conclude, “That we are already on the path of a sixth major extinction...

Why Won’t You Stupid People Believe #Science? Posted on Apparently, according to the compliant, statist left, objecting to the politicization of science now constitutes—wait for it—politicizing science. That should come as no surprise. For months, the COVID fascists have been labeling those of us who are skeptical of unconstitutional lockdowns and mask mandates as “science deniers.” Which just goes to show how confident they are in their position. Nothing screams “weak argument”...