{"id":7163,"date":"2023-03-24T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7163"},"modified":"2023-03-24T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:45:08","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-395","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/03\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-395","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 395"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><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 Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is volume 395, which feels like it ought to have a lot of factors but only has 79 and&nbsp;5.<\/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\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/19\/opinion\/teen-adult-depression-anxiety.html?unlocked_article_code=lFlHBj0u_Oqvk0kAe2e2IpVP0a0WKqZxXCSEh7Ij4OrYzhTyYEdyv8-iSDK-A86DxW8t52vg-_AfdAutv8ys3CbAhaPx6oA4IftPxx3K2zopA1HDpw8br8Wi8r6D0qBR9SnozDe_RY8qWHmBy03ujrKKOvkxqEMM8kecdU3LsDr7jU7L5dJvEZwO7kg66Q6Qpgx-oJin4dzhLsDRpzoqFeB-IWrwVGHPEaR2L3Af7yHSIYJU7y3VGt-IdgyNqIw7HJhh6s-r0w8Xq1EDbSsiwVCgIfyjZxmjA0eat8hQ_jBrHE5PplNiawY7orjNYl9IH5c1dXGUb7kPFgkVwpsQSAfE4dA47Ug&amp;smid=url-share\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/19\/opinion\/teen-adult-depression-anxiety.html?unlocked_article_code=lFlHBj0u_Oqvk0kAe2e2IpVP0a0WKqZxXCSEh7Ij4OrYzhTyYEdyv8-iSDK-A86DxW8t52vg-_AfdAutv8ys3CbAhaPx6oA4IftPxx3K2zopA1HDpw8br8Wi8r6D0qBR9SnozDe_RY8qWHmBy03ujrKKOvkxqEMM8kecdU3LsDr7jU7L5dJvEZwO7kg66Q6Qpgx-oJin4dzhLsDRpzoqFeB-IWrwVGHPEaR2L3Af7yHSIYJU7y3VGt-IdgyNqIw7HJhh6s-r0w8Xq1EDbSsiwVCgIfyjZxmjA0eat8hQ_jBrHE5PplNiawY7orjNYl9IH5c1dXGUb7kPFgkVwpsQSAfE4dA47Ug&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What if Kids Are Sad and Stressed Because Their Parents Are?<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cThe same year that 44 percent of teenagers reported suffering from serious sadness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 41.5 percent of adults reported \u2018recent symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder,\u2019 an increase from an already high baseline of 36.4 percent just months before. Moreover, while suicide rates have gone up in the youngest cohort of Americans, they still materially lag suicide rates among their parents and grandparents.\u2026 Teens do not exist on an island. The connection between parental emotional health and the emotional health of their kids is well established. Moreover, the way parents raise their kids can, of course, directly affect emotional health.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I have unlocked the paywall on this&nbsp;one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2023\/march\/worship-leader-trademark-enforce-social-media-probs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Company that Trademarked \u2018Worship Leader\u2019 Makes Others Drop the Term <\/a>(Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, Christianity Today): \u201cSince 2016, Authentic Media has owned the rights to the phrase \u2018worship leader\u2019 when applied to periodicals, online publications, and websites with resources around worship. Prior to that, the trademark had been owned by Maranatha Music, <em>Worship Leader\u2019<\/em>s previous owner, since 1993. The company also holds trademarks for \u2018worship leader workshop\u2019 and \u2018song discovery.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2023\/april\/quit-quiet-time-devotions-bible-literacy-reading-scripture.html\" target=\"_blank\">Is It Time to Quit \u2018Quiet Time\u2019?<\/a> (Dru Johnson and Celina Durgin, Christianity Today): \u201cIf today\u2019s common rituals of Bible engagement are not working, then we must disrupt them in favor of deep learning practices. These new habits could consist of communal listening, deep diving, repeated reading of whole books of the Bible, or some other strategy. But the assumption that daily devotions alone will yield scriptural literacy and fluency no longer appears tenable, because it never&nbsp;was.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recommended by a student, who says, \u201cThe title is very clickbaitish, but the article itself has good points. It\u2019s critiquing the practice of only superficially and passively reading short passages of Scripture isolated from their context in the rest of the Bible and isolated from other believers.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/education-commentary-is-dominated?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Education Commentary is Dominated by Optimism Bias<\/a> (Freddie deBoer, Substack): \u201cThe optimism bias in education circles has several orthodoxies. 1. Every student is capable of academic flourishing, and every time a student does not flourish, it must be the result of some sort of error or injustice.\u2026 5. Anyone who disagrees with this doctrine hates children, supports inequality, and doesn\u2019t care about poor people.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4391863\" target=\"_blank\">How to Learn and Teach Economics with Large Language Models, Including GPT<\/a> (Tyler Cowen &amp; Alexander T. Tabarrok, SSRN): \u201cOne general rule is that you should keep on asking GPT follow-up questions to get more out of it. It is more like squeezing a lemon than throwing a dart at a target.\u2026 Don\u2019t be passive, as with GPTs you always need to ask, and it rewards you when you are being demanding.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A lot of very good advice about using GPT and other LLMs in here in&nbsp;here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/americanaffairsjournal.org\/2023\/03\/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives<\/a> (Musa al-Gharbi, American Affairs Journal): \u201cThe well-being gap between liberals and conservatives [showing that conservatives are happier and better-adjusted than liberals] is one of the most robust patterns in social science research. It is not a product of things that happened over the last decade or so; it goes back as far as the available data reach. The differences manifest across age, gender, race, religion, and other dimensions. They are not merely present in the United States, but in most other studied countries as&nbsp;well.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a sociologist at Colombia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A lot of Stanford-related stories, mostly negative:&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/under-review\/the-marvellous-boys-of-palo-alto\" target=\"_blank\">The Marvellous Boys of Palo Alto<\/a> (David Leavitt, The New Yorker): \u201cTo grow up in Stanford is to be a son of Stanford in a way that no mere graduate can ever know. Bankman-Fried is a son of Stanford if there ever was one, as am I. And what are sons of Stanford taught? That if we should get into trouble, even real bad trouble, we can rest assured that our parents will bail us out, which is tantamount to resting assured that Stanford will bail us out, since Stanford has taken our parents to its heart and feeds money regularly into their bank accounts and owns the land on which they live. This faith in the certitude of protection, if not unique to the Stanford nation-state, is, I am convinced, one of its most essential aspects.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author grew up in the house in which Sam Bankman-Fried is now under house arrest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/stanfords-war-against-its-own-students\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford\u2019s War Against Its Own Students<\/a> (Francesca Block, The Free Press): \u201cAny place that sets a bar so high that you have to be literally perfect to get there; and when you get here, if you don\u2019t stay perfect, [Stanford] will punish you with every administrative resource they have for embarrassing them,\u201d Paulmeier added. \u201cTo me, that just sounds like an abusive parent, not like an educational institution you should model your kid\u2019s life around.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/stanfords-dark-hand-in-twitter-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford\u2019s Dark Hand in Twitter Censorship<\/a> (Thomas Adamo &amp; Josiah Joner, The Stanford Review): \u201cEmails revealed that the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) actively collaborated with Twitter to <strong>suppress information<em> they knew was factually true.<\/em><\/strong> Taibbi\u2019s investigation revealed that Stanford\u2019s Virality Project \u2018recommends that multiple platforms take action even against \u2018stories of true vaccine side effects\u2019 and \u2018true posts which could fuel hesitancy.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Emphasis in original.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Next-Steps-on-Protests-and-Free-Speech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Next Steps on Protests and Free Speech<\/a> (Dean Jenny S. Martinez, letter to the Stanford Law School): \u201cI want to set expectations clearly going forward: our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is not going to take the form of having the school administration announce institutional positions on a wide range of current social and political issues, make frequent institutional statements about current news events, or exclude or condemn speakers who hold views on social and political issues with whom some or even many in our community disagree. I believe that focus on these types of actions as the hallmark of an \u2018inclusive\u2019 environment can lead to creating and enforcing an institutional orthodoxy that is not only at odds with our core commitment to academic freedom, but also that would create an echo chamber that ill prepares students to go out into and act as effective advocates in a society that disagrees about many important issues.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The dean is spitting straight fire in this letter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/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\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2023\/03\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Optimism vs Pessimism<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/usher-collecting-offering-flips-ipad-around-for-worshippers-to-select-tip-amount\/\" target=\"_blank\">Usher Collecting Offering Flips iPad Around For Worshippers To Select Tip Amount<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2023\/03\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Phone Prayers<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atrandomcomics.com\/at-random-comics-home\/2023\/3\/22\/goldilocks\" target=\"_blank\">Goldilocks<\/a> (At Random Comics)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2023\/03\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Lonely<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2023\/03\/21\/president-arrested-ulysses-grant-speeding\/?utm_campaign=wp_main\" target=\"_blank\">A president has never been indicted. But one was arrested.<\/a> (Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post): \u201cGrant had an excuse for his speeding, not unlike one no doubt being given somewhere right now: He had no idea he had been going so fast. West was sympathetic but firm. \u2018I am very sorry, Mr. President, to have to do it,\u2019 he said, \u2018for you are the chief of the nation, and I am nothing but a policeman, but duty is duty, sir, and I will have to place you under arrest.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is a magnificent story.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A paywall-free summary is at Newser: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/332986\/meet-the-president-who-got-arrested.html\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the President Who Got Arrested<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/10\/the-sins-that-cry-out-to-heaven\" target=\"_blank\">The Sins That Cry Out to Heaven<\/a> (Eduardo Andino, First Things): \u201cThe Christian tradition speaks of four peccata clamantia, or sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance: murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding workers of their wages\u2026. This is not an arbitrary collection of sins.\u201d From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/10\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-274\" target=\"_blank\">volume 274<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">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 Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way. This is volume 395, which feels like it ought to have a lot of factors but only has 79 \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/03\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 395\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"There are a lot of mostly-negative Stanford articles in this week's compilation.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[219,220,182,296,117,135,175],"class_list":["post-7163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bible","tag-education","tag-mental-health","tag-politics","tag-stanford","tag-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Rx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163","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=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}