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As an undergraduate student at The University of New Mexico, Alex Harris was part of a team of researchers and is co-author of a paper that was recently highlighted in a scientific journal. For her contribution to the research, she scanned hundreds of...

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A systematic survey among evolutionary scholars suggests a lack of progress in the discipline of human evolutionary science. Many scholars are concerned that political trends in academia are contributing to increased hostility toward the field. ...

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Recruited: Middle class progressives, civil rights activists Peak following: 5,000+ Death toll: 918 Creepy fact: Some of Jones’ followers, including children, were forced to confess to made-up crimes and were beaten. Reverend Jim Jones started his own congregation known as the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ. He proclaimed to have a vision of a nuclear attack and when it would occur, causing him to move his church from Indianapolis to San Francisco. There, Jones’ ideologies of soc...

comments New HBO docuseries Heavens Gate: The Cult of Cults explores the UFO-obsessed cult that committed mass suicide by drinking a lethally spiked apple sauce, in hopes to enter what they called the Next Level  39 people died and it was the largest mass suicide event in US history; cult was led by husband and wife leaders who went by Ti and Do - he was a former music professor and she was a nurse The cult started in the 1970s and  required people to take a vow of celibacy and leave behind...

7 creepy things we learned about cult leader and former UA teacher Marshall Applewhite Updated Dec 13, 2020; Posted Dec 13, 2020 Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heavens Gate cult, is shown in an undated image. Applewhite and 38 followers died in a mass suicide in 1997. They believed they would abandon their “human containers” and their souls would be transported via comet Hale-Bopp, soaring through space to a better and more enlightened place.(AP Photo/APTV) Facebook Share The story o...