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	(Sponsor this newsletter) NYC Ivory Crush Sends Strong Anti-Poaching Message NEW YORK — Some 1,500 people gathered in New York City's Times Square today (June 19) to witness the destruction of 1 ton of confiscated ivory — a move intended to demonstrate to the world that objects made from poached ivory have no value. Read More » Will Pope Francis' Climate Encyclical Change the World? Pope Francis has drawn the world's attention with a new encyclical that urges action on climate change. The papal letter, titled "Laudato si," or "On Care for Our Common Home," paints a bleak picture of Earth as sick and poisoned at almost every level. "The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth," Pope Francis wrote in the document, which is typically sent to bishops of all Roman Catholic churches. Read More » Daddy's Here! Why Fathers Call Themselves 'Dad' Around Children Parents are often their children's language coaches, said Lisa Pellerin, an associate professor of sociology at Ball State University in Indiana. "They're using the terms that they want the child" to use, Pellerin said. Parents may also avoid using pronouns such as "I" or "you" because they are "too abstract and it's somewhat confusing to kids," said Emie Tittnich, an infant mental health specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. Read More » Earth's Mysteriously Light Core Contains Brimstone Biblical views of the center of the Earth as a hellish pit raging with fire and brimstone have some support from new research. "In a way, we can also say that we have life imitating art," study lead author Paul Savage, a research scientist in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University in the United Kingdom, said in a statement."For millennia, tales have been told of the underworld being awash with fire and brimstone. The researchers estimate that the Earth's core contains 10 times the amount of sulfur than in the rest of the world, or comparable to about 10 percent of the mass of the moon. Read More »
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