{"id":3942,"date":"2016-01-29T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T01:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:03:42","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/01\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-34","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 34"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading this week. See the bot\u00adtom for con\u00adtext.<\/p>\n

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  1. On The Via\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of Con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Beliefs<\/a> (David Robert Grimes, PLOS One): Oxford physi\u00adcist Grimes came up with an equa\u00adtion that shows how like\u00adly a con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy will be to suc\u00adceed under ide\u00adal con\u00addi\u00adtions. Of par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar inter\u00adest is the chart on the bot\u00adtom of page 11, show\u00ading that a con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy with more than 502 peo\u00adple has a 95% like\u00adli\u00adhood of expo\u00adsure after just 25 years. Read\u00ading that puts 1 Corinthi\u00adans 15:3\u20136 in a new light: \u201cFor what I received I passed on to you as of first impor\u00adtance: that Christ died for our sins accord\u00ading to the Scrip\u00adtures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day accord\u00ading to the Scrip\u00adtures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hun\u00addred of the broth\u00aders and sis\u00adters at the same time, most of whom are still liv\u00ading, though some have fall\u00aden asleep.\u201d Please note that there are all kinds of assump\u00adtions in the paper that are sub\u00adject to chal\u00adlenge\u2026 but if one of your friends brings this study up you should men\u00adtion this pas\u00adsage to them. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
  2. Cer\u00adti\u00adtude And Seek\u00ading The Truth<\/a> (Peter Wehn\u00ader, Com\u00admen\u00adtary). Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus (the rec\u00adom\u00admen\u00adda\u00adtion was actu\u00adal\u00adly for a blog post<\/a> excerpt\u00ading this arti\u00adcle, but I thought the whole thing was worth read\u00ading \u2014 it aligns nice\u00adly with my dis\u00adclaimer at the bot\u00adtom).<\/li>\n
  3. My Major, Myself:<\/a> (Olga Khaz\u00adan, The Atlantic). What does your major reveal (prob\u00ada\u00adbilis\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly) about your per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty?<\/li>\n
  4. Why Humans Find It Hard To Do Away With Reli\u00adgion<\/a> (John Gray, The New States\u00adman): Gray is him\u00adself an athe\u00adist. My favorite line: \u201cThe invet\u00ader\u00adate human incli\u00adna\u00adtion to reli\u00adgion is, in effect, the athe\u00adist prob\u00adlem of evil.\u201d This isn\u2019t quite right but it is amus\u00ading.<\/li>\n
  5. Peo\u00adple Can Be Con\u00advinced They Com\u00admit\u00adted A Non-Exis\u00adtant Crime In Just Three Hours<\/a> (Bec Crew, Sci\u00adence Alert). Dis\u00adturb\u00ading. This is a sum\u00adma\u00adry of the find\u00adings of an aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic paper: Con\u00adstruct\u00ading Rich False Mem\u00ado\u00adries of Com\u00admit\u00adting Crime<\/a> (Shaw & Porter, Psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Sci\u00adence).<\/li>\n
  6. How Reli\u00adgion Is Shap\u00ading the 2016 Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial Race<\/a> (Pew Research). If pol\u00adi\u00adtics is your thing, this arti\u00adcle will be inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li>\n
  7. Are Aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics Dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate\u00adly Gay?<\/a> (Colleen Fla\u00adher\u00adty, Inside High\u00ader Edu\u00adca\u00adtion). The tl;dr ver\u00adsion is yes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n
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    In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world.<\/p>\n

    To that end, on Fri\u00addays I\u2019ve been shar\u00ading articles\/resources I have found help\u00adful recent\u00adly in think\u00ading about broad\u00ader cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues (be sure to see the dis\u00adclaimer at the bot\u00adtom). I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it).<\/p>\n

    Also, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.<\/p>\n

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    Here are some things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading this week. See the bot\u00adtom for con\u00adtext. On The Via\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of Con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Beliefs (David Robert Grimes, PLOS One): Oxford physi\u00adcist Grimes came up with an equa\u00adtion that shows how like\u00adly a con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy will be to suc\u00adceed under ide\u00adal con\u00addi\u00adtions. Of par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar inter\u00adest is the chart on the bot\u00adtom of \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 34\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[131,124,159,113,117],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-justice","tag-lgbtq","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-11A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3944,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}