Just a quick question for those who are married (or hope to be at some point)… how united are you and your spouse when it comes time to vote in a political election? Are you truly “one flesh” and vote together across the ballot, or do you retain an individual sense of preference, even if [...]
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One of the last memes that Peter Kirk passed along was “what type of pizza are you?” Now he’s back with another, this time a “Spiritual Types Test“. But while Peter scores as a Sage, I’ve come in as a Mystic:
You are a Mystic, known for your imaginative, intuitive spirituality. You value peace, harmony, and [...]
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HT: Josephine Marcotty, StarTribune.com
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health studied the histories of 125,000 men and women who reported how much coffee they drank between 1980 and 2004. The more coffee they drank, the less likely they were to die from a heart attack or cardiovascular disease. That was especially true for women. Compared [...]
HT: Iyov, for the link to this article.
As tedious as footnotes can be to read, they can be even more so to produce. For high school students and undergraduates, footnotes seem less a test of research skills or academic honesty than a trial of one’s endurance and equanimity. In the heyday of the typewriter, footnotes [...]
Every once in a while you run across a verse or two that make you pause and scratch at your nose in bewilderment:
Give strong drink to the hapless
And wine to the embittered.
Let them drink and forget their poverty,
And put their troubles out of mind.
Proverbs 31:6-7 (Tanakh Translation, JPS)
These verses are bookended by the admonishments for [...]
Nick Norelli at Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth has called for bloggers everywhere to “to take pictures of their bookshelves or desks and show everyone what they are reading at the moment or about to read in the near future.”
My photos are below; what I’m actively reading is documented on the “bookshelf” tab of [...]
I’ve begun the process of entering my bookshelf into LibraryThing, an online catalog that lets you share information about your books with others. Click the button below to view my current titles:
I’ve only entered the theological and Bible titles so far; I’ll add my academic music studies shelf when I have time, as well as [...]
Check out this video on how the massive rocks of Stonehenge, Easter Island and probably the Pyramids might have been moved without any mechanical tools and far fewer people than previously imagined.
Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes [...]
New material pushes the boundary of blackness
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.
Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by [...]
