Category: Of Random Interest

When I tell stu­dents that there are objec­tive and prac­ti­cal ben­e­fits to faith they seem sur­prised. But that’s the nature of truth — when you make choic­es based upon real­i­ty, those choic­es tend to work out better. 

What can we all learn from reli­gion — whether we believe or not? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Bark­ing up the wrong tree. I want to under­stand why we do what we do and use the answers to be awe­some at life. About. Eric Bark­er; First vis­it? Start here. Bakadesuyo.com is proud to be list­ed on blo…

Lolo wound up plac­ing 4th. I wish she had won a medal. 

Lolo Jones can’t be sexy, Chris­t­ian and a hur­dler » GetRe­li­gion

Some read­ers sent in a recent piece from Salon, which (for those who stopped read­ing it back in the 1990s) bills itself as “the lead­ing pro­gres­sive news site, com­bin­ing award-win­ning com­men­tary and re…

The mouseover text on this XKCD is fab­u­lous.

xkcd: Star Rat­ings

< Prev · Ran­dom; Next >; >|. Per­ma­nent link to this com­ic: http://xkcd.com/1098/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/star_ratings.png. Select­ed Comics. Search co…

Wow.

Freako­nom­ics » Speak­ing Ill of the Dead Appar­ent­ly Okay if the Dead Worked for Chick-fil‑A

Sysco is the lat­est food giant—it’s the largest food dis­trib­u­tor in the country—to come out against ges­ta­tion crate con­fine­ment of pigs. The Nation­al Pork Pro­duc­ers Coun­cil’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor w…

I love the idea of a din­ner for the top tax­pay­ers. That’s bril­liant. If dona­tions buy access, then why not tax­es?

Sen­tences to pon­der

…I find it remark­able that I have yet to receive a thank you note for pay­ing my tax­es. When I fill out my tax­es, I notice that even receipts for $25 dona­tions have thank you notes attached. But for t…

The bit about amne­sia made me laugh out loud. Wow.

Do sleep­ing pills like Ambi­en work because of the place­bo effect? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Join 25K+ sub­scribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Sleep­ing pills on aver­age only make peo­ple fall asleep 12 min­utes faster and sleep 11 min­utes longer dur­ing the night. The place­bo effect m…

Very inter­est­ing — and con­trary to what you nor­mal­ly hear. Be sure to read the pieces linked to in the adden­dum.

Racism by Polit­i­cal Par­ty

It is unde­ni­ably the case that racist Amer­i­cans are almost entire­ly in one polit­i­cal coali­tion and not the oth­er. Chris Hayes, Up w/ Chris Hayes, August 18, 2012. Here is data ask­ing whites the quest…

Osborne brings his usu­al wis­dom — espe­cial­ly point 3.

SLOW DOWN – YOU MOVE TOO FAST!

Because North Coast Church has been some­what inno­v­a­tive over the years and suc­cess­ful­ly made lots of changes, I’m often asked by oth­er pas­tors and lead­ers about the best way to go about mak­ing majo.…..

It is dif­fi­cult to over­state my pes­simism about the tra­jec­to­ry of Chi­na’s econ­o­my.…  I hope I am wrong but I deeply fear anoth­er big blow to the glob­al finan­cial sys­tem. Google for “Chi­nese Ghost Cities” to have your socks scared off.

To the point (Aus­tro-Chi­nese busi­ness cycle the­o­ry)

“There is per­sua­sive evi­dence to con­clude that the Chi­nese econ­o­my is actu­al­ly grow­ing at just 4 or 5 per cent right now based on a com­pos­ite of oth­er indicators,” says Patrick Chovanec, a busi­ness pr…

Inter­est­ing way to think about it.

Does new infor­ma­tion slow down your life?

From William Reville, here is a spec­u­la­tion: Final­ly, here is a “guaranteed” way to length­en your life. Child­hood hol­i­days seem to last for­ev­er, but as you grow old­er time seems to accel­er­ate. “Time” …