The cover page of the April 2022 issue of the reputed international journal Nature Astronomy showcases the image of a 2018 simulation study by Professor Dipanjan Mukherjee of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India and his collaborators.

[…] in the second case, as long as the woman is covert she cannot anticipate the income, and a mere alienation of her interest is not an attempt to anticipate.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Many contemporary industrial societies are characterized by the condition some writers call affluenza. In the affluenzic society, the continuous growth in material wealth and consumption of material goods sits at the centre of human life and aspirations, rapidly reducing and replacing other goals and values of human fulfilment[…]. Constituted by a set of robust positive feedback mechanisms, affluenza is the larger system under which many local and global economies now operate, and which shapes the personal values of many individuals and the social priorities of many nations and governments.