disciple, husband, father, college minister
Wait… the pictures your old high school classmates send you can actually make you more productive?
Looking at pictures of cute animals makes you work more carefully and deliberately
Or so we are told: A new study by Japanese researchers now shows there are more benefits to looking at pictures of these universal delights than just getting a case of the warm and fuzzies. Afterwards…
The final bit is the most interesting to me. I truly think football is doomed in America. Perhaps it will mutate and survive, but its current form is surely passing away.
The Finest Young Sportswriter in America
It may surprise you to learn the finest young sportswriter—perhaps the finest young writer period—in America is a Christian. It’s true: Thomas Lake, all of 31 years of age and currently a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, graduated from Gordon College in Massachusetts.
Lake has drawn major attention for his long-form journalism, which expertly mixes soaring set pieces and ground-level investigation. In most cases a journalist excels at ei…
I would not have guessed the gap was so large. Part of it is easy to understand — everyone needs health care but education tends to be limited to certain stages of life. But that only gets you to a 20–1 or so ratio.
Questions that are rarely asked
It is estimated that less than $1B is spent in the U.S. each year on education research, with the federal government spending about $700M and universities, foundations and the private sector spending …
The last few sentences are pure gold.
Paradox of Hoaxes: How Errors Persist, Even When Corrected | Wired Science | Wired.com
Not only were people spreading incorrect information with recent hoaxes, the collective internet consciousness didn’t even recognize the return of the same error. And even when we do recognize such er…
Somehow this never occurred to me. Wow. I knew 3D printers were going to give plenty of people headaches, but it never occurred to me that they might also be responsible for exit wounds.
Guns don’t kill people, printers do!
Imagine an America in which anyone can download and print a gun in their own home. They wouldn’t need a license, a background check, or much technical knowledge, just a 3D printer. That’s the vision a…
I consider myself fairly well-informed about this issue, but some of these citations were new to me.
In this post, I’m going to address two misconceptions that people often hold concerning abortion. First, many people assume that elective abortions are a fairly recent phenomenon—something made possib…
Heh. I love it when someone uses simple numbers to explode a ridiculous claim (or in this case, a purportedly unanswerable question).
Sand in the Gears » Blog Archive » Abandoning children
What happened in Nebraska doesn’t raise the question, it answers it. Using U.S. Census Bureau data, we can determine that when Nebraska parents have the opportunity to give up their children with no c…
What a clever experiment. The human brain is fascinating…
How to confuse a moral compass
Survey ‘magic trick’ causes attitude reversal.
I was skeptical, but it is a plausible contender.
Over the past two months, Ted McCagg has been running a contest on his blog to find the best word ever. A winner was recently anno
