She erased the memory. The guilt came back anyway. T’Pol hunts a Vulcan fugitive on an icy moon — and relives a killing she’d had ritually purged from her mind. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin on memory, guilt, and trust.
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In 1928, an exorcism unfolded in a tiny Iowa convent. It inspired a 2016 movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the public account and a never-published secret manuscript of the Earling Exorcism. Part 1 of 2.
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This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 4 April 2026 to 8 April 2026.
Tom Paris and Neelix crash on Planet Hell and are forced to care for a newly-hatched alien creature — and finally put their rivalry over Kes to rest. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler break down the Voyager episode Parturition. Stranded together, Paris and Neelix must cooperate to care for a newly-hatched creature. The panel examines Neelix’s controlling jealousy, Janeway’s command style, plot logic holes, and the writers’ deliberate choice to finally resolve the Paris-Neelix tension.
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This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 20 March 2026 to 2 April 2026.
In 1952, a self-taught philosopher near Palomar Mountain walked into the California desert and claimed to meet a being from Venus. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli investigate the remarkable story of George Adamski, the first UFO contactee.
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In DS9’s “Crossfire,” Odo’s longing for Kira collides with First Minister Shakaar’s confidence. Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin ask: is Odo’s emotional rigidity protecting him — or guaranteeing heartbreak?
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This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 15 March 2026 to 25 March 2026.
TNG’s “The Hunted” is a Vietnam allegory that rarely gets its due. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler examine what works, what doesn’t, and how stronger dramatic choices could have made it truly great.
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In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen spent seven obsessive weeks locked in his lab, convinced he had gone mad. What he had actually discovered — invisible rays that passed through solid objects and revealed the bones beneath skin — earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics and gave the world X-rays.
That discovery kicked off one of the most remarkable six-year periods in the history of science. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace the full arc of radiation’s discovery, beginning with the eccentric English scientist William Crookes — who invented both the radiometer and the Crookes tube, discovered element thallium, and spent years investigating psychic phenomena under controlled conditions. His Crookes tube laid the groundwork for everything that followed.
Henri Becquerel stumbled onto natural radioactivity in 1896 when photographic plates he had left in a dark drawer came out exposed. The uranium salt sitting on top had been emitting invisible rays on its own — no sunlight, no electrical apparatus required. Marie Curie took that discovery and ran with it, showing through painstaking measurement that radioactivity is a property of atoms themselves, not of chemical reactions. That single insight cracked open modern atomic physics and proved the ancient Greek atomists wrong: atoms are not indivisible.
Marie and Pierre Curie went on to discover two new elements — polonium (named for Marie’s occupied homeland, Poland) and radium, which is a million times more radioactive than uranium — and Marie coined the term radioactivityitself. She became the first person, man or woman, to receive two Nobel Prizes: one in Physics in 1903 and one in Chemistry in 1911.
Ernest Rutherford extended the work further, identifying alpha and beta particles, proving one element can transmute into another (a discovery his colleague Soddy nearly called “transmutation” before Rutherford shut that down), and using radioactive helium bubbles trapped in ancient rock to calculate that the Earth is at least 500 million years old — overturning Lord Kelvin’s confident and thoroughly wrong 20-million-year estimate. Paul Villard rounded out the era by discovering gamma rays in 1900.
Jimmy and Dom also address what radiation actually is — ionizing vs. non-ionizing, particle vs. electromagnetic — and why the scary reputation is overstated. From the faith perspective, they examine radiation as something God wove into creation: enabling sight, hearing, evolution, and cellular repair.
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