Tech & Science

(Nextgov) Do you ever feel like the light of your computer screen is burrowing into your eyes and making your head pulse? Or feel dizzy or nauseous after looking at your phone? While you might think these sensations are just eye strain or fatigue from looking at your screen for too long, they’re actually symptoms of a condition called cybersickness. These issues may seem … [Read more...] about Screentime Can Make You Feel Sick – Here Are Ways to Manage Cybersickness

by Renée Roden (RNS) A federal judge has ordered Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain whose president is Museum of the Bible founder Steve Green, to forfeit an ancient tablet bearing a rare fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh.  The clay tablet, roughly the size of an iPhone, was originally brought to the United States by an antiquities dealer who purchased it in London in … [Read more...] about Judge Orders Forfeiture of Ancient Tablet From Museum of the Bible

(AP) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed course Tuesday on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the delta variant of the coronavirus is fueling infection surges. Citing new information about the variant’s ability to spread among vaccinated people, the CDC also … [Read more...] about CDC Changes Course on Indoor Masks in Some Parts of the Us

DENVER (AP) A federal appeals court has rejected an attempt to reinstate a lawsuit challenging Colorado's anti-discrimination law by a web designer who didn't want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Monday denied Lorie Smith's attempt to overturn a lower court ruling throwing out her … [Read more...] about Colorado Web Designer Loses Challenge in Same-Sex Case

(DNYUZ) Months before the megachurch Hillsong opened its new outpost in Atlanta, its pastor sought advice on how to build a church in a pandemic. From Facebook. The social media giant had a proposition, Sam Collier, the pastor, recalled in an interview: to use the church as a case study to explore how churches can “go further farther on Facebook.” For months Facebook … [Read more...] about Facebook Wants You to Connect With God. On Facebook.