{"id":6563,"date":"2021-04-30T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2021-04-30T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:08:51","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/04\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-299","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 299"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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 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>     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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the 299th install\u00adment of these emails. 299 is, I am told, the most pieces into which a sim\u00adple object (like a cube or a sphere \u2014 some\u00adthing with\u00adout a weird struc\u00adture) can be split using 12 straight cuts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/perell.com\/essay\/why-youre-christian\/\">Why You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Chris\u00adt\u00adian<\/a> (David Per\u00adrell, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c\u2026I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a tepid non-believ\u00ader myself.\u2026 [How\u00adev\u00ader] I real\u00adized that society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most pas\u00adsion\u00adate crit\u00adics, most of whom claim to be sec\u00adu\u00adlar, usu\u00adal\u00adly have the most Chris\u00adt\u00adian val\u00adues of all. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve stud\u00adied in elite uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties, they live in major cities, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re proud mem\u00adbers of the intel\u00adli\u00adgentsia. Human rights, a cen\u00adter\u00adpiece of their moral out\u00adlook, is incon\u00adsis\u00adtent with the rest of their world\u00adview. Though they pride them\u00adselves on evi\u00addence-based think\u00ading, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly bank\u00adrupt on the top\u00adic of human rights.\u201d<ul><li>Relat\u00aded (at least in my mind): <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/what-became-of-atheism-part-one-wearing?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNTUzODA0NSwiXyI6IjFrSjdYIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE5NDQzMTE2LCJleHAiOjE2MTk0NDY3MTYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yOTU5MzciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.C05AS5QUb1QcHNWAsUOc7S1l0v3Ep2RtlPheL3PS-8w\">What Became of Athe\u00adism, Part One: Wear\u00ading the Uni\u00adform<\/a> (Fred\u00addie deBoer, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c\u2026if God exists then that is the sin\u00adgle most impor\u00adtant fact in the his\u00adto\u00adry of cre\u00adation and noth\u00ading else can take its crown, ever. If a being exists, of what\u00adev\u00ader nature, who cre\u00adat\u00aded real\u00adi\u00adty, exists with\u00adin all of real\u00adi\u00adty, set reality\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s phys\u00adi\u00adcal and moral rules, watch\u00ades over all of real\u00adi\u00adty, judges all of us on how devout and moral we are, and deter\u00admines reward and pun\u00adish\u00adment based on that judge\u00adment, that clear\u00adly is the truth that trumps all oth\u00ader truths. Strange to let it slip out of the debate qui\u00adet\u00adly in the night. But then I sup\u00adpose that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cul\u00adture war; soon\u00ader or lat\u00ader the only ques\u00adtion that remains is who is on what side of the line, and all the rest dis\u00adsolves.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Jus\u00adtice-relat\u00aded thoughts:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/the-voice-of-your-brothers-blood\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Voice of Your Broth\u00ader\u2019s Blood Is Cry\u00ading to Me From the Ground\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201c\u2026we can artic\u00adu\u00adlate three truths of sim\u00adple, indi\u00advid\u00adual jus\u00adtice. First, a grave wrong cre\u00adates a moral and spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal cry for redress. Sec\u00adond, it is the role of gov\u00adern\u00adment to pro\u00advide that redress. And third, the gov\u00adern\u00adment must be impar\u00adtial, treat\u00ading \u2018great and small\u2019 alike. All too many Amer\u00adi\u00adcans are com\u00adplete\u00adly unaware of the extent to which the present struc\u00adtures and habits of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan law fail to meet those basic oblig\u00ada\u00adtions, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when injus\u00adtice is vis\u00adit\u00aded upon the cit\u00adi\u00adzen by the state.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/24\/opinion\/derek-chauvin-suffering.html?smid=tw-share\">Chau\u00advin Was Con\u00advict\u00aded. Some\u00adthing Is Still Very Wrong.<\/a> (Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Bru\u00adenig, New York Times): \u201cFor\u00adgive\u00adness doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly tri\u00adumphant. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a gift no one wants to be in the posi\u00adtion to give; it releas\u00ades a wrong\u00addo\u00ader from moral debt \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for their own good and the com\u00admon good, not for the sake of the wronged.\u2026 But I want to live in a world where it is pos\u00adsi\u00adble to for\u00adgive and to be for\u00adgiv\u00aden. In fact, I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nec\u00ades\u00adsary.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/real.html\">The Real Rea\u00adson to End the Death Penal\u00adty<\/a> (Paul Gra\u00adham, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cBut in prac\u00adtice the debate about the death penal\u00adty is not about whether it\u2019s ok to kill mur\u00adder\u00aders. It\u2019s about whether it\u2019s ok to kill inno\u00adcent peo\u00adple, because at least 4% of peo\u00adple on death row are inno\u00adcent.\u201d I find this a real\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00ading line of argu\u00adment. Clear\u00adly we want to have a 100% accu\u00adra\u00adcy rate in all crim\u00adi\u00adnal con\u00advic\u00adtions. But is 96% accu\u00adra\u00adcy out\u00adra\u00adgeous\u00adly intol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble? To the extent that it becomes a per\u00adsua\u00adsive argu\u00adment against the death penal\u00adty isn\u2019t that then also an argu\u00adment against impris\u00adon\u00adment? Or vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly any pun\u00adish\u00adment?<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2013\/02\/unjust-secular-justice\">Unjust Sec\u00adu\u00adlar Jus\u00adtice<\/a> (Matthew Schmitz,First Things): \u201cWhile in the colo\u00adnial era most cas\u00ades went to tri\u00adal (and most tri\u00adals last\u00aded a stun\u00adning\u00adly short thir\u00adty min\u00adutes), more and more are now resolved by a plea bar\u00adgain. Nowhere is our aban\u00addon\u00adment of colo\u00adnial ideas of crim\u00adi\u00adnal jus\u00adtice more appar\u00adent than in no-con\u00adtest pleas that allow defen\u00addants to receive lighter sen\u00adtences with\u00adout any admis\u00adsion of guilt.\u201d This is an old\u00ader book review (2013) but is quite good.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gfile.thedispatch.com\/p\/tucker-carlson-tim-scott-policing-reform?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNTc0NTE4MSwiXyI6InhXMTh3IiwiaWF0IjoxNjE5Njc3MTgwLCJleHAiOjE2MTk2ODA3ODAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xNzgxOSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.j8JViCmXIRRV6_ZBHo4E0LOpUbw-bTRN3g5wYq62Fv0\">Out\u00adrage Over\u00adload<\/a> (Jon\u00adah Gold\u00adberg, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cMod\u00adern policing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor even polic\u00ading\u00c2&nbsp;<em>qua<\/em>\u00c2&nbsp;policing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dowes far less to slave patrolling than NASA owes to Hitler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rock\u00adet pro\u00adgram. And yet no one talks about the trou\u00adbling Nazi roots of mod\u00adern space explo\u00adration, or asks Elon Musk if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exor\u00adcised the ghost of Wern\u00ader Von Braun from SpaceX. I have seen this slave patrol thing brought up count\u00adless times in inter\u00adviews, and not once have I seen an inter\u00adview\u00ader say, \u2018Real\u00adly?\u2019 nev\u00ader mind, \u2018What the hell are you talk\u00ading about?\u2019 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as bat\u00adty as any con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy the\u00ado\u00adry, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a delib\u00ader\u00adate attempt to heap innu\u00aden\u00addo on polic\u00ading in lieu of mak\u00ading an intel\u00adli\u00adgent argu\u00adment. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what frus\u00adtrates me to no end. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the job of jour\u00adnal\u00adists to call out B.S. when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being thrown in their faces.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/what-became-of-atheism-part-one-wearing?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozNTUzODA0NSwiXyI6IjFrSjdYIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE5NDQzMTE2LCJleHAiOjE2MTk0NDY3MTYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yOTU5MzciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.C05AS5QUb1QcHNWAsUOc7S1l0v3Ep2RtlPheL3PS-8w\">Where Two or Three Are Gath\u00adered<\/a> (William J. Haun\u00c2&nbsp;&amp;\u00c2&nbsp;Daniel L. Chen, Law &amp; Lib\u00ader\u00adty): \u201cOver 40 <em>ami\u00adcus<\/em> briefs lam\u00adbast\u00aded this embrace of open-end\u00aded gov\u00adern\u00adment surveillance\u00e2\u20ac\u201dreflecting an ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal agree\u00adment so wide that NARAL Pro-Choice North Car\u00adoli\u00adna and Wis\u00adcon\u00adsin Right to Life joined the same brief. On the sur\u00adface, wide\u00adspread con\u00adsen\u00adsus in favor of asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion\u00adal pri\u00adva\u00adcy is sure\u00adly wel\u00adcome. But this agree\u00adment masks equal\u00adly wide\u00adspread, decades-long con\u00adfu\u00adsion over how and why the Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion pro\u00adtects free asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion.\u201d Quite good, a bit dry. The authors are lawyers with the Beck\u00adet Fund.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22338417\/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wokeness is a prob\u00adlem and we all know it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> (Sean Illing inter\u00adview\u00ading James Carville, Vox): \u201cWe won the White House against a world-his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal buf\u00adfoon. And we came with\u00adin 42,000 votes of los\u00ading. We lost con\u00adgres\u00adsion\u00adal seats. We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pick up state leg\u00adis\u00adla\u00adtures. So let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not have an argu\u00adment about whether or not we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off-key in our mes\u00adsag\u00ading. We are. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too much jar\u00adgon and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too much eso\u00adter\u00adi\u00adca and it turns peo\u00adple off.\u201d Carville is a leg\u00adendary Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic polit\u00adi\u00adcal strate\u00adgist and he is in full-on old man rant mode here.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/27\/world\/asia\/India-delhi-covid-cases.html?smid=tw-share\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis Is a Catastrophe.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 In India, Ill\u00adness Is Every\u00adwhere<\/a>. (Jef\u00adfrey Get\u00adtle\u00adman, New York Times): \u201cNew Del\u00adhi, India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sprawl\u00ading cap\u00adi\u00adtal of 20 mil\u00adlion, is suf\u00adfer\u00ading a calami\u00adtous surge. A few days ago,\u00c2&nbsp;the pos\u00adi\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty rate hit a stag\u00adger\u00ading 36 per\u00adcent\u00c2&nbsp;\u00e2\u20ac\u201d mean\u00ading more than one out of three peo\u00adple test\u00aded were infect\u00aded. A month ago, it was less than 3 per\u00adcent.\u201d <ol><li>Relat\u00aded: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/30\/opinion\/india-covid-crematorium.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDeath Is the Only Truth.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Watch\u00ading India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Funer\u00adal Pyres Burn.<\/a> (Aman Sethi, New York Times): \u201cThe Indi\u00adan gov\u00adern\u00adment has ordered Twit\u00adter, Face\u00adbook and Insta\u00adgram to take down dozens of posts crit\u00adi\u00adciz\u00ading its han\u00addling of the pan\u00addem\u00adic. But the graph\u00adic images of mass cre\u00adma\u00adtions have cut through this wall of noise, mis\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion and pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda, cap\u00adtur\u00ading what epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists call \u2018excess mor\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty\u2019 in grue\u00adsome detail.\u201d<\/li><\/ol><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/krasnican.substack.com\/p\/columbia-stone\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/krasnican.substack.com\/p\/columbia-stone\">Colum\u00adbia Stone<\/a> (T.A. Kras\u00adni\u00adcan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThis pub\u00adlic for\u00adget\u00adful\u00adness is the same indif\u00adfer\u00adence that in 1938 inspired Adolf Hitler, after issu\u00ading orders for his Nazi \u2018death-head for\u00adma\u00adtions\u2019 to \u2018send to death mer\u00adci\u00adless\u00adly and with\u00adout com\u00adpas\u00adsion, men, women, and chil\u00addren of Pol\u00adish deriva\u00adtion and lan\u00adguage,\u2019 to write the famous phrase, \u2018<em>Who, after all, speaks today of the anni\u00adhi\u00adla\u00adtion of the Arme\u00adni\u00adans?<\/em>\u2019 Pub\u00adlic ambiva\u00adlence about human tragedy embold\u00adened him.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquiremore.com\/p\/individualism-is-associated-with\" target=\"_blank\">Indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adism is asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with hap\u00adpy coun\u00adtries, but not peo\u00adple<\/a> (Zaid Jilani, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn a recent\u00adly released study, team of researchers stud\u00adied young adults across four coun\u00adtries \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Chi\u00adna, the Unit\u00aded States, Rus\u00adsia, and Italy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d start\u00ading with the hypoth\u00ade\u00adsis that lev\u00adels of life sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion would be high\u00ader among indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals who have indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adis\u00adtic val\u00adues. At the coun\u00adtry lev\u00adel, this is indeed what they found. Coun\u00adtries with a high\u00ader index of indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adis\u00adtic val\u00adues had more life sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that put Amer\u00adi\u00adca on top, fol\u00adlowed by Italy, Rus\u00adsia, and then Chi\u00adna. But an entire\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent pic\u00adture emerged when they looked at the indi\u00advid\u00adual lev\u00adel. There, they found that indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adism had no impact on life sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion. Instead, life sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion was pos\u00adi\u00adtive\u00adly cor\u00adre\u00adlat\u00aded with col\u00adlec\u00adtivism, regard\u00adless of the wider cul\u00adture of the coun\u00adtry.\u201d My take: Amer\u00adi\u00adcans are on aver\u00adage hap\u00adpi\u00ader than the Chi\u00adnese because of the free\u00addoms which emerge from our indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adism, but the hap\u00adpi\u00adest indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals in each coun\u00adtry are those that freely choose to embrace fam\u00adi\u00adly and com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2021\/04\/24\">The Road To Hell<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/All-Scientists-Retire-After-Realizing-The-Science-Is-Now-Settled\/\">All Sci\u00aden\u00adtists Forced To Retire After Real\u00adiz\u00ading The Sci\u00adence Is Now Set\u00adtled<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee): \u201cOne sci\u00aden\u00adtist tried to insist that the sci\u00adence was\u00adn\u2019t set\u00adtled, but he was labeled as a \u2018sci\u00adence denier\u2019 and kicked off social media.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2021\/04\/24\">Brows\u00ader His\u00adto\u00adry<\/a> (Non Sequitur)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/johnson-and-johnson-rolls-out-new-no-more-clots-vaccine\/\">John\u00adson And John\u00adson Rolls Out New \u2018No More Clots\u2019 Vac\u00adcine<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2021-04-25?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DilbertDailyStrip+%28Dilbert+Daily+Strip%29\">Dil\u00adbert Inter\u00adrupts Women<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-distances-themselves-from-margaret-sanger-by-continuing-her-legacy\/\">Planned Par\u00adent\u00adhood Dis\u00adtances Them\u00adselves From Mar\u00adgaret Sanger By Con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading Her Lega\u00adcy<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/scientist-saying-we-need-to-stop-eating-beef-to-prevent-climate-change-looks-suspiciously-like-a-chick-fil-a-cow-in-a-lab-coat\/\">\u2018We Must Stop Eat\u00ading Beef To Fight Cli\u00admate Change,\u2019 Says Sci\u00aden\u00adtist Who Looks Sus\u00adpi\u00adcious\u00adly Like Chick-Fil\u2011A Cow In A Lab Coat<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/o2a23F6\">Masks<\/a> (Imgur)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eC1BAcOzHyY\">Mag\u00adnus Carlsen\u2019s Mind-Blow\u00ading Mem\u00ado\u00adry! World Chess Cham\u00adpi\u00adon test\u00aded<\/a> (YouTube): this is amaz\u00ading.  Four min\u00adutes.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2456\/\">Types of Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Paper<\/a> (xkcd): this has spawned many deriv\u00ada\u00adtives already and is quite fun\u00adny. I\u2019d love to see one for ser\u00admon types.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale\/2016\/01\/15\/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html?tid=pm_pop_b\">No Food Is Healthy. Not Even Kale.<\/a> (Michael Ruhlman, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): Peo\u00adple can be healthy. Food can be nutri\u00adtious. This is a won\u00adder\u00adful essay about how we mis\u00aduse lan\u00adguage to our detri\u00adment. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sur\u00adprised I includ\u00aded this, I believe that our cul\u00adture has a qua\u00adsi-reli\u00adgious rela\u00adtion\u00adship to health and to food, and I also believe that the use of lan\u00adguage is pro\u00adfound\u00adly moral and that our cul\u00adture is a lin\u00adguis\u00adtic mess (to which I know of no fin\u00ader guide than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcetext.com\/grammarian\/\">The Under\u00adground Gram\u00admar\u00adi\u00adan<\/a>). (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/01\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-33\">vol\u00adume 33<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u00e2\u20ac\u0153who under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (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\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I agree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I dis\u00adagree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until I can say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I under\u00adstand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) 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.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 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.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. 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