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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Claus D. Volko, M.D. on Symbiont Conversion Theory and Bacterial Reprogramming
Claus D. Volko, M.D. (born 1983) is an Austrian software engineer and medical scientist in Vienna. He holds degrees in medicine (M.D.), medical informatics (B.Sc.) and computational intelligence (M.Sc.). In the demoscene he is known as “Adok” and served as main editor of the electronic magazine Hugi. Volko formulated Symbiont Conversion Theory in 2018. He founded and leads the Prudentia High IQ Society, and joined Mensa in 2002. In 2018 he published “Volko Personality Patterns,” a Jungian-inspired extension of MBTI typology. In 2025 he posted “Reprogramming Bacteria for Symbiont Conversion: A Review” on Prudentia’s blog, and maintains Prudentia’s journal and blog.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen28 days ago in Interview
Green Dome Islamic School: Faith-Based Education and Public Partnership in Calgary
Malik Ashraf is Vice Chairman of the Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic Assembly (Green Dome Mosque) in Calgary and a founding volunteer who has served the community for over 20 years. He helps lead the organization's education work, including Green Dome Islamic School, a Prairie Land School Division partner school that combines Alberta's curriculum with Islamic studies and community-based supports. In conversation, Ashraf describes education as guidance—moral, intellectual, and spiritual—anchored in the Qur'an's call to read and learn. He advocates for equitable public policy, sustainable funding, and community-built institutions that protect children and strengthen families. He documents progress publicly and invites dialogue.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen30 days ago in Humans
Christopher Pommerening on Human-Centered Learning, Learner Autonomy, and the Future of Education
Christopher Pommerening is a German entrepreneur, investor, and education innovator who has dedicated his career to reimagining learning for the 21st century. Based in Barcelona, he is the founder of Learnlife, a global movement of “learning hubs” designed to replace outdated, standardized models of education with personal, co-created, and autonomous approaches. Drawing on his 27 years in the technology and startup sector, Pommerening combines entrepreneurial vision with a deep commitment to human-centred learning. His work emphasizes relationships, lifelong learning, and learner agency, aiming to inspire ecosystems of change that help individuals flourish in diverse cultural contexts worldwide.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsenabout a month ago in Education
Gáspár Békés, European Secularist Network: Secular Policy in Hungary
Gáspár Békés is Secretary and a Founding Member of the Hungarian Atheist Association and a persecuted secular journalist. Here we talk in-depth about secularism, Humanism, youth rights, and religion in Hungary.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsenabout a month ago in Interview
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, Dayvon Love, Nkechi Taifa: California AB 7, Reparations, and Truth and Repair
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is a professor at UCLA holding the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, with appointments in Sociology and African American Studies. He served as the inaugural chair of UCLA's African American Studies department and previously was President of the Association of Black Sociologists. Hunter is a co-author of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life, which examines Black urban formation and the geographies of power, and author of Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsenabout a month ago in History
Kelowna Harvest Fellowship and Harvest Ministries International: Child Sex Abuse Allegations, Civil Suits, and Evangelical Accountability in British Columbia
This article examines recent abuse-related cases in British Columbia’s evangelical landscape. It outlines criminal charges against Pastor Edwin Alvarez of an unnamed Metro Vancouver church for alleged sexual interference and assault against children between 2017 and 2021. It then reviews two active civil lawsuits against Pastor Art Lucier and Kelowna Harvest Fellowship, where plaintiffs allege long-term grooming and sexual abuse beginning in childhood, alongside institutional negligence. The article contrasts these ongoing actions with a separate Kelowna case in which a former youth pastor, anonymized as “CM,” received an 18-month custodial sentence after pleading guilty to child sex offences.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsenabout a month ago in Criminal
Northside Foursquare Church and Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Church Abuse Allegation Cases
Langley, with its dense Evangelical presence, has seen serious abuse allegations within local churches. One civil case involves Pastor Barry Buzza of Northside Foursquare Church, accused of grooming and sexually abusing a teenage congregant who sought pastoral guidance, with claims the church ignored warning signs. Another case centers on Pastor Samuel Emerson of Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Church, who faced multiple charges related to sexual misconduct involving youth; he was ultimately convicted on one count of sexual assault, with other charges and those against his wife dismissed. These cases highlight patterns of spiritual authority, impunity, and inadequate safeguarding in regional Evangelical institutions.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsenabout a month ago in Criminal
Feminist Afghan Media: Afghanistan Women’s News Agency (AWNA), Nimrokh Media, Rukhshana Media, Radio Begum, Begum TV, and Zan Times
Afghanistan is facing an extreme human-rights emergency, with Taliban policies shutting girls out of secondary and university education and denying 2.2 million girls schooling beyond the primary level. Women are barred from most work, public life, and basic freedoms, while forced and child marriage has surged. In this crisis, feminist media outlets—AWNA, Nimrokh, Rukhshana, Radio Begum, Begum TV, and Zan Times—have emerged in Afghanistan and in exile, documenting abuses and defending women’s voices despite escalating repression.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Humans
Fumfer Physics 34: P vs NP, Gödel, Chaitin, and Computational Limits
In this exchange, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner explore the P vs NP problem and its philosophical echoes. Rosner leans toward the mainstream view that P likely does not equal NP, drawing a parallel to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Jacobsen expands the discussion with Tarski’s meta-language framework and Chaitin’s arguments about irreducible complexity, connecting them to both biological systems and modern AI. The conversation emphasizes that mathematical uncertainty does not endanger reality; instead, it reveals intrinsic limits on what computation can achieve. The pair illustrate this with the traveling salesman problem, an archetype of explosive combinatorial complexity in the real world.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 33: Relational Information and the Leaky Quantum Universe
Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner explore an “informational cosmology” where the universe is a relational information-processing system. Rosner defines information as selecting one outcome from many possible outcomes, which only counts when events leave durable, readable records. They contrast transient and stable traces, from stellar reactions to human memories, and ask whether awareness matters to cosmic information. Questioning simple “universe as computer” models, they propose emergent, fuzzy properties that sharpen with scale, tied to quantum entanglement and probabilistic “leakiness.” The universe continually defines its own frame through changing relations, not absolute size or static digital bits evolving over time.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Education
How the Peace School Is Redefining Education: Dr. Nasser Yousefi and Baran Yousefi on Love, Democracy, and Learning in 2025
Dr. Nasser Yousefi and Baran Yousefi are the creators of the Peace School, a Canadian lab school dedicated to humanistic, child-centred education. Drawing on backgrounds in psychology, pedagogy, and community work, they design environments where children explore relationships, values, and critical thinking rather than merely perform for grades or rankings. Their work challenges behaviourist, test-driven schooling by foregrounding emotional intelligence, democratic participation, and love as core educational principles. Through collaborations with universities, community partners, and international scholars, they aim to build a global network of progressive educators committed to inclusive, peace-oriented learning for children and families worldwide today and tomorrow.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Education
Sudan War 2025: Famine and the Gendered Hunger Crisis
The war in Sudan, between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, is among the world's largest conflicts, causing over 150,000 deaths and displacing more than 14 million. Famine was declared in El Fasher and Kadugli in November 2025. Women and girls face gendered harms: UN Women estimates 11 million are food insecure and 73.7% lack minimum dietary diversity. Siege conditions in Darfur and Kordofan intensify malnutrition; women eat last or not at all. Foraging exposes them to abduction and sexual violence. With maternity care collapsing, women-led groups deliver aid. UN Women urges a ceasefire, safe corridors, and funding.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Humans
