Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years
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Join Jimmy Akin this August for a four-week course on Psi and Christianity.
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Valles Marineris (SNW)
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Sixty-five million years in the past, Pike can save a planet or keep his own future — not both. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler take on Strange New Worlds S4E1: dinosaurs, Martians, and the ethics of time travel.
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The Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation
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A black fungus that eats radiation? Found in the ruins of Chernobyl, it could shield astronauts headed to Mars. Caroline Knight, Lindsay Sant, and Dom Bettinelli unpack radiosynthesis and the living space shield it inspired.
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Missing (SGA)
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A routine checkup on New Athos becomes a run-for-your-life survival story when the cannibal Bola Kai overrun the village. In Atlantis S4E7 “Missing,” Jeff Haecker, Victor Lams, and Lisa Jones weigh Teyla and Keller’s brutal two-hander.
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The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri
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Dozens of unrelated children said shining, winged figures stood over them as an EF5 tornado destroyed Joplin. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh cryptids, trauma, folklore, and guardian angels behind the butterfly people.
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Digitize Your Family Memories Before They’re Gone
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The box of photos and VHS tapes in your basement is decaying right now. Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier map out how to rescue family memories before the media rots — and why recording who’s in the photo outlasts the photo.
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Monarch, S2: Separate Ways
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A nesting mother, a tactical nuke on the table, and a stolen egg. Dom Bettinelli and Jeff Haecker break down Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2E8, where Shaw calls in Godzilla and Apex walks off with the prize.
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The Sin of Denethor
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Despair isn’t sadness — it’s the choice to stop hoping, and it destroys Denethor. Patrick Mason, Rob Leonardi, Robert Story, and Fr. Bryan Shackett on the palantír, Sauron’s algorithm of doom, and the Gandalf line Pope Leo just quoted.
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Singularity (ENT)
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Radiation from a black hole turns the crew into a shipful of obsessives in Enterprise S2E9, “Singularity.” Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler ask whether you can really build a whole plot on a pun.
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Keeping Humanity at the Center of the AI Age
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Can the Church keep humanity at the center of the AI age? Dom Bettinelli joins Lindsay Sant and Caroline Knight on Pope Leo’s encyclical Magnifica humanitas, a radiation-eating Chernobyl fungus, and StarQuest’s 20th year.
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Tabula Rasa (SGA)
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Everyone on Atlantis wakes up with no memory and a deadly clock ticking. In Stargate Atlantis S4E6, “Tabula Rasa,” Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones unpack the amnesia mystery, Major Lorne’s villain turn, and one very effective Polaroid.
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Mark Twain Super-Psychic: His Shocking Telepathy & Death Dream
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He spent his career debunking fake mesmerists and mediums — then dreamed his brother’s funeral weeks before it happened. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace Mark Twain’s strange turn toward telepathy and ask what the Catholic has to say about it.
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Your Lawn Just Went High-Tech
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The lawn has gone high-tech. Dom Bettinelli and Thomas Sanjurjo weigh battery mowers against gas, robot mowers against your Saturday, and smart irrigation against a soggy guess — plus the gardening gear that actually earns its keep.
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The Secrets of One Last Monster
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A widowed empress must choose between killing a monster or trusting its warning. Filmmaker Gene Kim talks with Angela Sealana and Jeff Haecker about One Last Monster — his Korean-history sci-fi short on the comfort zone, grief, and faith.
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Monarch, S2: String Theory
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Two Lee Shaws meet across the decades through a rift — and Monarch finally lets its humans outshine its monsters. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Patrick Mason unpack the time-travel paradoxes of S2E7, “String Theory.”
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Roverandom
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A dog bites a wizard’s trousers, gets turned into a toy for his trouble, and that’s the least strange thing that happens. Thomas Salerno, Rob Leonardi, Rob Story, Fr. Bryan Shackett, and Patrick Mason unpack Tolkien’s Roverandom.
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The Million-Dollar Boba Fett: A Star Wars Toy Retrospective
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From Star Wars toy to valuable collectible: One rocket-firing prototype sold for $1.34 million. Jeff Haecker, Jon Koral, Kathryn Laffrey, and Thomas Salerno dig through Kenner history, Expanded Universe figures, and their own childhood toy shelves to explain why Star Wars toys captured our imaginations.
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Persistence of Vision (VOY)
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A powerful alien telepath locks Voyager’s crew in private hallucinations and then vanishes without explanation. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin on whether “Persistence of Vision” earns its mystery.
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The Keys of the Kingdom
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A Scottish priest spends six decades in China and never once bullies anyone into belief. Kathryn Laffrey and Alix Murray dig into The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) — Gregory Peck’s first Oscar-nominated role — and the power of Golden Age faith on film.
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The First Dentist Was a Neanderthal
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Sixty thousand years before modern dentistry, a Neanderthal endured a 35-minute stone-tool drilling procedure — no anesthesia — and survived. Caroline Knight explains what a 59,000-year-old infected molar reveals about prehistoric medicine.
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