Scott Douglas Jacobsen
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen is the publisher of In-Sight Publishing (ISBN: 978-1-0692343) and Editor-in-Chief of In-Sight: Interviews (ISSN: 2369-6885). He is a member in good standing of numerous media organizations.
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Fumfer Physics 2: Black Holes vs. Stars
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: From an information-theoretic perspective that marries quantum mechanics with general relativity, how would you contrast a black hole with a star, an information-processing object embedded in the wider cosmos?
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen4 months ago in Education
Fumfer Physics 1: Edward Witten's White Hole
Scott Douglas Jacobsen recounts asking Ed Witten, often regarded as Einstein’s intellectual heir and the only physicist to win the Fields Medal, about the plausibility of white holes. Witten, during a keynote on black hole thermodynamics, compared white holes to balancing a pencil on its tip—possible in theory but statistically impossible. Jacobsen pressed further, asking how large a universe and how much time would be needed for one to form. Rick Rosner contextualized this in terms of entropy, event horizons, and informational cosmology, suggesting black holes might not seal off information completely but instead collapse into high-entropy matter or budding universes.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen4 months ago in Education
Charlie Kirk's Murder: The Facts, Figures, and Contexts. Content Warning.
*Information from best available data circa September 21, 2025.* Charlie Kirk was murdered. On September 10th, 2025, at an outdoor Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University (UVU), Orem, Utah, with approximately 3,000 people in attendance, Kirk was struck by a bullet in the neck/throat while on stage.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Humans
Welcome Address to the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Holography and its Applications: Baku, Azerbaijan
Distinguished colleagues, esteemed guests, and members of the broader scientific community, I welcome you to the proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Holography and its Applications at Khazar University.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Education
Biologic Institute, Douglas Axe, and Intelligent Design Creationism
“Biologic Institute is a non-profit research organization founded in 2005 for the purpose of developing a new approach to biology. Thanks to technological advances, the life sciences have become very effective at acquiring facts. What they need now is a theoretical foundation that makes sense of these facts. Some still claim that Darwin’s theory does just that, but the ongoing struggle to make sense of genomic data (for example) indicates otherwise.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Education
The International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design and Intelligent Design Creationism
“The International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID) herewith announces its formation and official launch. ISCID is a cross-disciplinary professional society that investigates complex systems apart from external programmatic constraints like materialism, naturalism, or reductionism. The society is fully web-driven and can be reached via the Internet at http://www.iscid.org.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Education
The Discovery Institute and Intelligent Design Creationism
“To defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies… To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God… To see intelligent design theory as the dominant perspective in science… Discovery Institute’s Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies.”
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Education
Architects of Intelligent Design Creationism, Then and Now
“The ID movement itself recognizes that their view stands in opposition to science. One finds this not only in the leaked Discovery Institute "Wedge" document, which discusses overturning what they see as the anti-theistic assumptions of modernism, but throughout ID writings. I'll just give a few examples. William Dembski writes:
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Education
Global Data on Gendered Violence: Patterns and Asymmetries
International metrics indicate abuse patterns of males and females. Sex asymmetries exist in these contexts of violence, whether physical violence, sexual assault, emotional/psychological maltreatment, financial/economic control, or abuse within institutions.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Education
Bold on Climate, Silent on Abuse: Abuse Survivors and Advocates Call Out Templeton Foundation for Recognition of Ecumenical Patriarch. Content Warning.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 15, 2025 The Templeton Foundation [1] awarded its 2025 Prize to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople (Dimitrios Archontonis) in spite of the Patriarch’s silence on clergy sexual abuse in Orthodoxy, a group of survivors and advocates say.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Criminal
Prosopon Healing Launches Orthodox Church Sexual Misconduct Database. Content Warning.
Clergy-related sexual abuse has been a significant and problematic element of religious institutional conduct. From leadership conduct to political cover-up to institutional denial, it plagues the international religious community in an ongoing manner.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen5 months ago in Education
