the Howard Bloom institute

On April 25th at 4 pm eastern time,  scientific thinker and author Howard Bloom will dissect the state of the world with author and cultural leader Daniel Pinchbeck in the fifth IAIS Dialogue– a dialog for the International Academy of Information Studies (IAIS), at the MEET link: https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1 Bloom has been called the Einstein, Newton, Darwin and
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By Howard Bloom On Monday April 14, 2025, the peer-reviewed sociology journal Socius published an article called “Breaking Free of the Iron Cage,” a striking title.  Why was Breaking Free of the Iron Cage so arresting that even the lofty physics outlet Phys.org gave it space?  StudyFinds, an outlet that sums up the latest eye-catching scientific research, said
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By Howard Bloom  Cory Booker, during his 25-hour record-breaking Senate speech Monday night March 31st to Tuesday night April 1st described the current state of America as a “crisis” and emphasized that “these are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.” Booker’s statement was dismissed as pathetic whining by MAGA cheerleader Sean Hannity. But
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By Howard Bloom  It all started at 2 am Tuesday morning, March 18th.    Israel broke the ceasefire.  War planes filled the Gaza sky.  Bombs were dropped. Thirty-five airstrikes were made.  Hamas claimed that over 400 people were killed, most of them women and children.  But remember, Hamas makes heavy use of lying in war.  It’s called taqiyya, a form
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We Are Sitting On The Edge Of A Volcano By Howard Bloom Why are Americans uneasy?  A year ago, in the spring of 2024, ​The Chapman University Survey of American Fears, indicated that over 50% of Americans were worried about a third world war, corrupt government officials, and terrorism.  Since then, things have gotten worse.  Why?
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By Howard Bloom I’ve now seen death from two very different points of view.  In 1988, I was hit by an illness without a name, an illness that would imprison me in my bedroom for the next fifteen years. Today it’s called myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome.   I lost nearly everything that had made
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By Howard Bloom MIT physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark says in his book Our Mathematical Universe that math is the universe.  And many believe that ideas without a mathematical foundation are not science at all. Jesus had an opinion on this sort of thing.  He said about the strictness of the high priests of his day, the Sabbath was
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Even to a Democrat like me, Donald Trump’s first ten days in office were mind-blasting.   President Trump issued over 100 executive orders, proclamations, and memoranda in just his first week in office.  Joe Biden had signed 15 executive orders in his first day.  Trump signed 26.  Then Trump just kept signing.   He broke records and hired 1,300 new
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By Howard Bloom Here’s what the media is not telling you about the new Israel-Hamas peace deal.   On Sunday, January 19th the new cease-fire will hopefully go into effect.  The  media is euphoric.  A hostage deal, they say, has been reached between Israel and Hamas after 467 days of fighting and 459 days of negotiating.  Peace is on the
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By Howard Bloom CNN says The Washington Post just laid off 100 people.   In reality, it’s worse than that.  The Post has signed 240 people to voluntary separation agreements. It has gotten rid of a whopping 10% of its entire staff.  And those on the left fear that freedom of the press and free speech are at
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By Howard Bloom How you feel about America’s hopes for 2025 depends on the party you belong to.  That’s the bottom line of four polls on Americans’ expectations for the coming year, polls from Gallup, Reuters, AP-NORC, and CBS News.   In reality, these polls are a referendum on the upcoming Trump administration.  Republicans’ expectations are sunny.  Democrats’ expectations
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