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Interesting. I’ve been hearing for years that red wine is healthy for your heart… but I guess that’s like believing that coffee is a wonder drug that makes your brain work better. People want it to be true.
Study: Red Wine Is Healthier When It’s Non-Alcoholic (Sorry)
Research suggests the alcohol in red wine may actually be impeding the antioxidants’ cardiovascular benefits.
Tina Seelig’s course on creativity looks interesting.
Stanford Offers 16 Free Courses This Fall
This is basically what I believe the Bible’s message on bribery to be: it is okay to give a bribe when necessary but never okay to accept one. Contrast Proverbs 21:14 with Exodus 23:8 (among many other relevant passages). Living in a fallen world is complex.
Kaushik Basu named as World Bank chief economist
Annie Lowrey has the scoop. Excerpt: A paper he released last year caused a bit of a stir: While advising the Indian government, Mr. Basu argued that countries could reduce the incidence of “harassme…
I still wish UT had come into the PAC-whatever.
Stanford Researchers Explore Why Football is Entrenched in The American Collegiate Experience
The number two person receives only 2/3 what the number one person receives? Wow. For a healthier model, I recommend one similar to the one Ted Haggard used at New Life Church. Yes. Ted Haggard. He describes it in his book The Life Giving Church. It is similar to the model described at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html
How Much Money Do Megachurch Pastors Make?
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“adolescent male monkeys prefer playing with trucks while adolescent female monkeys prefer dolls” — one of the best and most intriguing sentences I have come across in some time.
Scott Adams Blog: Preferences 09/05/2012
The Official Dilbert Website featuring Scott Adams Dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dogbert’s New Ruling Class and mor…
Use social media? Yes, yes I do. Use twitter? No, no I don’t.
Organizations Lose $1.3 Trillion by Not Engaging in Social Media — ThomRainer.com
I was shocked. Two presidents of organizations began using Twitter in the past two months. These are presidents I know well, leaders who for years saw no value in Twitter or other social media. As one…
The wow kicks in from 33 seconds through the end of the race.
An amazing Paralympics performance
Or rather, just an amazing performance, full stop. I was alerted to this video by Dunstan Orchard who tweeted “this must be t
I am also registered as a NPP voter (No Party Preference) and for similar reasons. It turns out the terminology matters in California. Beware lest you accidentally become registered as a member of the American Independent Party. Happened to me, briefly.
Confessions of an evangelical pastor registered as an independent voter
I first attended an evangelical church in the late 1970s. I was born again by the end of the decade at age 13. I began to pay attention to politics, with an eye on how they played out in the church. B…
Spurgeon really was a boss. Wow.
Good men there have been and are who could do far more service for God and his church by their pens if they would write less and write better. They flood our second-rate magazines with torrents of ver…