By William J. Furney It’s not just a big world out there, but an enormous, gargantuan universe that’s so impossibly large — and growing — that it’s barely possible for
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By William J. Furney It’s not just a big world out there, but an enormous, gargantuan universe that’s so impossibly large — and growing — that it’s barely possible for
Continue readingBy William J. Furney The latest in a family of coronaviruses to afflict humankind has plunged the world into deep crisis and lingering uncertainty of a kind not seen in
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Suddenly, “super-busy” people (or people who like to tell us they are) everywhere have little or nothing to do, and they can’t cope, with the lack
Continue readingBy William J. Furney It’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, yet the barbaric and sometimes fatal ritual is still being performed on around 3 million girls
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Mike Eastabrook is a UK-based vice president of the advocacy group Foreign Friends of Catalonia, which seeks to counter what he calls “the crude repression of
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Blockchain seems to be everywhere. Almost every time you read a news article, the peculiar term is right there, staring you in the eyes and imploring
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Mustafa Kassem is a taxi driver in New York who was visiting his wife and young son and daughter in Cairo, Egypt, in the summer of
Continue readingFrench stage and film actor François Rimbau talks to Furney Times for the first in the Big Questions series exploring what it means to be human. At what age would you
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Animal rights group PETA does “extraordinary things to draw attention to cruelty to animals”, says the shock-stunt organisation’s UK director, Elisa Allen. The 36-year-old German-born London
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