{"id":5326,"date":"2019-02-08T19:58:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T03:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2019-02-08T19:58:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T03:58:48","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/02\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-189","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 189"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/malware-dna-hack\/\">Bio\u00adhack\u00aders Encod\u00aded Mal\u00adware In A Strand Of DNA<\/a> (Andy Green\u00adberg, Wired): \u201c\u2026a group of researchers from the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Wash\u00ading\u00adton has shown for the first time that it\u2019s pos\u00adsi\u00adble to encode mali\u00adcious soft\u00adware into phys\u00adi\u00adcal strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer ana\u00adlyzes it the result\u00ading data becomes a pro\u00adgram that cor\u00adrupts gene-sequenc\u00ading soft\u00adware and takes con\u00adtrol of the under\u00adly\u00ading com\u00adput\u00ader.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>WHOA. Also, the term \u201cbio\u00adhack\u00ader\u201d is much cool\u00ader than \u201chack\u00ader.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/02\/andrew-sullivan-the-nature-of-sex.html\">The Nature of Sex<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, NY Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cIt\u2019s no acci\u00addent that some of the most homo\u00adpho\u00adbic soci\u00adeties, like Iran, for exam\u00adple, are big pro\u00adpo\u00adnents of sex-reas\u00adsign\u00adment surgery for gen\u00adder-non\u00adcon\u00adform\u00ading kids and adults (the gov\u00adern\u00adment even pays for it) while being homo\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal war\u00adrants the death penal\u00adty\u2026. If you aban\u00addon biol\u00ado\u00adgy in the mat\u00adter of sex and gen\u00adder alto\u00adgeth\u00ader, you may help trans peo\u00adple live fuller, less con\u00adflict\u00aded lives; but you also under\u00admine the very mean\u00ading of homo\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/153083\/demon-slaying-pentecostal-billionaire-ushering-post-catholic-brazil\">How A Demon-Slay\u00ading Pen\u00adte\u00adcostal Bil\u00adlion\u00adaire Is Ush\u00ader\u00ading In A Post-Catholic Brazil<\/a> (Alexan\u00adder Zaitchik and Christo\u00adpher Lord, The New Repub\u00adlic): \u201cWhen Mace\u00addo com\u00adplet\u00aded his $249 mil\u00adlion head\u00adquar\u00adters in 2014, his point of com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson wasn\u2019t John Hagee\u2019s megachurch or Pat Robertson\u2019s TV stu\u00addio. It was the Christ the Redeemer stat\u00adue atop Mount Cor\u00adco\u00adv\u00ada\u00addo, over\u00adlook\u00ading Rio de Janeiro, the sym\u00adbol of Catholic dom\u00adi\u00adnance since 1921. In inter\u00adviews, Mace\u00addo made sure to note that his Solomon\u00adic church was near\u00adly twice as tall.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>First, what a head\u00adline. Sec\u00adond, search for images of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=temple+of+solomon+brazil&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwji2oLM3K3gAhVQSK0KHdbbAgAQ_AUIDigB\">Solomon\u2019s tem\u00adple in Brazil<\/a>. It\u2019s HUGE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/2019-02-01\/stacey-abrams-response-to-francis-fukuyama-identity-politics-article?utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter_posts\">E Pluribus Unum?<\/a> (Stacey Abrams, For\u00adeign Pol\u00adi\u00adcy): \u201c\u2026minori\u00adties and the mar\u00adgin\u00adal\u00adized have lit\u00adtle choice but to fight against the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar meth\u00adods of dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion employed against them. The mar\u00adgin\u00adal\u00adized did not cre\u00adate iden\u00adti\u00adty pol\u00adi\u00adtics: their iden\u00adti\u00adties have been forced on them by dom\u00adi\u00adnant groups, and pol\u00adi\u00adtics is the most effec\u00adtive method of revolt.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t see many straight\u00adfor\u00adward defens\u00ades of iden\u00adti\u00adty pol\u00adi\u00adtics. Worth read\u00ading.&nbsp; This is a rebut\u00adtal to an arti\u00adcle by Fran\u00adcis Fukuya\u00adma. Fur\u00adther down the page a few oth\u00aders respond as well, and then he offers a rejoin\u00adder.<\/li>\n<li>Abrams is a Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic politi\u00adcian, cur\u00adrent\u00adly out of office. She was the one cho\u00adsen to give the Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic response to Trump\u2019s State of the Union address.<\/li>\n<li>A&nbsp; vague\u00adly relat\u00aded arti\u00adcle by one of my stu\u00addents: <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/failed-and-racist-why-stanford-should-ditch-of-affirmative-action\/\">Failed and Racist: Why Stan\u00adford Should Ditch Affir\u00adma\u00adtive Action<\/a> (Anni\u00adka Nordquist and Jose Anto\u00adnio Ava\u00adl\u00ados, Stan\u00adford Review): \u201cAfrican Amer\u00adi\u00adcan and His\u00adpan\u00adic rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion at elite uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties is actu\u00adal\u00adly low\u00ader than it was 35 years ago, and the minor\u00adi\u00adty stu\u00addents who attend appear to be pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly upper class\u2026. Elite uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties are able to pat them\u00adselves on the back and pad their pro\u00admo\u00adtion\u00adal mate\u00adri\u00adals with pic\u00adtures of a diverse stu\u00addent body, while leav\u00ading minor\u00adi\u00adty stu\u00addents gen\u00aduine\u00adly trapped in cycles of pover\u00adty almost untouched.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Con\u00adfes\u00adsion: it\u2019s not real\u00adly all that relat\u00aded, but I try to lim\u00adit myself to 7 main bul\u00adlet points. I also have a com\u00admit\u00adment to post\u00ading stuff that my stu\u00addents get pub\u00adlished. This is my best com\u00adpro\u00admise. \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; Also, if you\u2019re in Chi Alpha and get some\u00adthing pub\u00adlished be sure that I know about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/01\/07\/the-philosopher-redefining-equality\">The Philoso\u00adpher Redefin\u00ading Equal\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Nathan Heller, New York\u00ader): \u201cWhen she was three, her moth\u00ader asked, \u2018Why do you allow your broth\u00ader to talk for you?\u2019\u2014why didn\u2019t she speak for her\u00adself? \u2018Until now, it sim\u00adply was not nec\u00ades\u00adsary,\u2019 Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth said. It was the first full sen\u00adtence that she had ever uttered.\u201d I think that\u2019s the best first sen\u00adtence I\u2019ve ever heard of. A tad long, but rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/outline.com\/AjNL5u\">This Black His\u00adto\u00adry Month, don\u2019t pre\u00adtend racism has dis\u00adap\u00adpeared from the church<\/a> (Jemar Tis\u00adby, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cMany peo\u00adple, includ\u00ading Chris\u00adtians, like to believe that if they were alive dur\u00ading the 1960s, they would have par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded in the civ\u00adil rights move\u00adment. If Chris\u00adtians refuse to acknowl\u00adedge racism and fight against it today, then it is clear where they would have stood half a cen\u00adtu\u00adry ago, too.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Tis\u00adby is a Ph.D. can\u00addi\u00addate in his\u00adto\u00adry and grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded from Reformed The\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Sem\u00adi\u00adnary.<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: a <a href=\"https:\/\/georgepwood.com\/2019\/01\/22\/the-color-of-compromise-book-review\/\">thought\u00adful review of Tisby\u2019s book<\/a> by George P. Wood, an acquain\u00adtance of mine.<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrerhenry.com\/thoughts\/2019\/2\/5\/to-all-the-white-friends-i-couldnt-keep\">To All The White Friends I Could\u00adn\u2019t Keep<\/a> (Andre Hen\u00adry, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cI thought that if you heard from a black per\u00adson you trusted\u2014me\u2014that racism is alive and well in our times, that you would come to under\u00adstand that what hap\u00adpened to Mr. Castile, to Mr. Mar\u00adtin, Ms. Bland, Ms. Boyd, Mr. Ster\u00adling, Mr. Brown, Mr. Gar\u00adner, Mr Grey, Ms. Shirley, Ms. Gaines, and so many oth\u00aders were not unique, iso\u00adlat\u00aded inci\u00addents but parts of a pat\u00adtern.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/02\/06\/state-american-fact-checking-completely-useless\/\">The State of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Fact-Check\u00ading Is Com\u00adplete\u00adly Use\u00adless<\/a> (David Harsanyi, The Fed\u00ader\u00adal\u00adist): \u201cThere are plen\u00adty of legit\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly mis\u00adlead\u00ading state\u00adments wor\u00adthy of fact-check\u00aders\u2019 atten\u00adtion. Yet, with a veneer of impar\u00adtial\u00adi\u00adty, fact-check\u00aders often engage in a unique\u00adly dis\u00adhon\u00adest style of par\u00adti\u00adsan\u00adship.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brfCtXwzX7g\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jon Doren\u00adbos Blows Minds With Unbe\u00adliev\u00adable Mag\u00adic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (America\u2019s Got Tal\u00adent, YouTube) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WWDg7IndmgI\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shin Lim is back with wild card tricks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (America\u2019s Got Tal\u00adent, YouTube)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/god-agrees-to-spare-virginia-if-10-democrats-who-never-wore-blackface-can-be-found\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God Agrees To Spare Vir\u00adginia If Just 10 Democ\u00adrats Who Nev\u00ader Wore Black\u00adface Can Be Found<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Baby\u00adlon Bee): sav\u00adage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/L3FLExM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bat\u00adman vs Dare\u00addev\u00adil<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Imgur)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2019-02-03\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dil\u00adbert Dooms The World<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.verber.com\/mark\/xian\/weight-of-glory.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Weight of Glo\u00adry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (C.S. Lewis): It was orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly preached as a ser\u00admon and then print\u00aded in a the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy mag\u00ada\u00adzine. Relat\u00aded: see the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CSLewisDoodle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C. S. Lewis Doo\u00addle YouTube chan\u00adnel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 it\u2019s real\u00adly good! (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/02\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-36\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 36<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">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). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>If this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Bio\u00adhack\u00aders Encod\u00aded Mal\u00adware In A Strand Of DNA (Andy Green\u00adberg, Wired): \u201c\u2026a group of \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/02\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-189\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 189\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":"Biohacking, a demon-slaying Pentecostal billionaire, and a handful of  controversial topics.","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":[253,161,228,238,113,177,252,116,172,214],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-brazil","tag-global-christianity","tag-identity","tag-latin-america","tag-lgbtq","tag-media","tag-philosophy","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1nU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","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=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}