{"id":7183,"date":"2023-04-21T22:08:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T05:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:08:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T05:08:48","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/04\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-399","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 399"},"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 399, a <a href=\"https:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/HarshadNumber.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/HarshadNumber.html\">Harshad number<\/a>. That means it is divisible by the sum of its digits. 3+9+9=21 and 399\u00f721 =&nbsp;19.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.experimental-history.com\/p\/science-is-a-strong-link-problem\" target=\"_blank\">Science is a strong-link problem<\/a> (Adam Mastroianni, Substack): \u201cThere are two kinds of problems in the world: strong-link problems and weak-link problems. Weak-link problems are problems where the overall quality depends on how good the <em>worst <\/em>stuff is. You fix weak-link problems by making the weakest links stronger, or by eliminating them entirely.\u2026 Science is a strong-link problem. In the long run, the best stuff is basically all that matters, and the bad stuff doesn\u2019t matter at&nbsp;all.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Highly recommended, has application to multiple domains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/the-myth-of-sexual-experience-\" target=\"_blank\">The Myth of Sexual Experience<\/a> (Jason S. Carroll &amp; Brian J. Willoughby, Institute for Family Studies): \u201c\u2026we review a series of recent studies using different national datasets that show that having multiple sexual partners during the dating years leads to higher divorce rates in future marriages. We also report the findings of a new study that examined how sexual experience histories are associated with the quality of current marriage relationships. Overall, we found that \u2018sexually inexperienced\u2019 individuals, or the ones who have only had sex with their spouse, are the one\u2019s mostly likely to be flourishing in marriage.&nbsp; These \u2018sexually inexperienced\u2019 individuals report the highest levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship stability, sexual satisfaction, and emotional closeness with their spouses.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The article ends with this wonderful line: \u201cWhile the benefit of experience can be seen in many aspects of life, sexual <em>in<\/em>experience appears to still be the best pathway to marital flourishing.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The authors are professors at&nbsp;BYU.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aaronrenn.substack.com\/p\/newsletter-75-the-toxic-reality-of?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">The Toxic Reality of a Post-Familial Society<\/a> (Aaron M. Renn, Substack): \u201cSouth Korea is a particularly interesting case study. It has the world\u2019s lowest fertility rate, with a total fertility rate or TFR of 0.78 (2.1 is needed just to keep population constant). It has also developed particularly unhealthy gender relations, elements of which we see echoed in our own country. As here, these have even started to carry over into politics. What we see in South Korea is that post-familialism can produce unhappiness and dysfunctional social and political dynamics.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Related: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/stop-treating-women-like-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stop Treating Women Like Men<\/a> (Sophie Fujiwara, Stanford Review): \u201cIn college, we don\u2019t differentiate between men and women when advising students about their careers, as if their life arcs will follow the same trajectory. The greatest privilege that high-earning, educated women have is the privilege of choice, but this notion of perfectly equal career trajectories disadvantages women.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/when-ideology-drives-social-science\" target=\"_blank\">When Ideology Drives Social Science<\/a> (Michael Jindra &amp; Arthur Sakamoto, The Chronicle of Higher Education): \u201cIn complex areas like the study of racial inequality, a fundamentalism has taken hold that discourages sound methodology and the use of reliable evidence about the roots of social problems. We are not talking about mere differences in interpretation of results, which are common. We are talking about mistakes so clear that they should cause research to be seriously questioned or even disregarded. A great deal of research\u2026 rigs its statistical methods in order to arrive at ideologically preferred conclusions.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The authors are a cultural anthropologist at BU and a sociologist at Hong Kong Baptist University, respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/i-was-a-teenage-evangelical-missionary-090019782.html\" target=\"_blank\">I was a teenage evangelical missionary<\/a> (Jon Ward, Yahoo News): \u201cThese leaders wanted a muscular faith that didn\u2019t shrink back from a fight. They wanted a dramatic faith too, full of spectacle. They were all big personalities, which they used to compensate for their lack of training, expertise, and experience. Faith, for them, was not the act of extending one\u2019s self beyond the realm of what could be known to trust in what one hoped could be true. They had more certainty than anything. Christianity was true, no questions asked. For them, faith was a belief that they could call down miracles from heaven to heal the sick or predict the future or change world events. Leaders like Engle and Ahn didn\u2019t come across as charlatans. They were very sincere. But early on in their lives, they got locked into a particular type of faith ministry, and they built audiences and followings based on that brand and that kind of faith. At that point, their livelihoods and incomes became dependent on catering to those same types of Christians. Personal evolution or growth became constrained by their business model.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/trevorklee.substack.com\/p\/something-interesting-is-happening\" target=\"_blank\">Something interesting is happening in Tulsa<\/a> (Trevor Klee, Substack): \u201cI visited Tulsa through Tulsa Tomorrow, a program that flies out young Jews to Tulsa for a weekend to try to get them to live there. So far, from their own numbers, they\u2019ve flown out about 150 Jews over the last 6 years and about 70\u201380 have&nbsp;moved.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A fascinating story, not very&nbsp;long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/21\/world\/europe\/belgium-geel-psychiatric-care.html?campaign_id=61&amp;emc=edit_ts_20230421&amp;instance_id=90749&amp;nl=the-great-read&amp;regi_id=173343284&amp;segment_id=131038&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=8dd61d1972db557755f4f79c1c0c5c6e\" target=\"_blank\">A Radical Experiment in Mental Health Care, Tested Over Centuries<\/a> (Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Koba Ryckewaert, New York Times): \u201cBy the end of the 19th century, nearly 2,000 [people with mental health problems] lived among the Geelians, as the locals call themselves.\u2026 That has made Geel&nbsp;both something of a model for a particular paradigm of psychiatric care and an outlier, often regarded over the centuries with suspicion (including by The New York Times, which, in&nbsp;a headline&nbsp;from March 23, 1891, called Geel \u2018a colony where lunatics live with peasants\u2019 that had been \u2018productive of misery and evil results\u2019).\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recommended by a student.<\/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=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/peppa-pigs-family-vacation-ruined-by-jesus-healing-demoniac-at-nearby-cemetery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peppa Pig\u2019s Family Vacation Ruined By Jesus Healing Demoniac At Nearby Cemetery<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s86AQIKTLbQ\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s86AQIKTLbQ\">Fooled by Coincidence Card Trick? Javier Natera<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): nine minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tzLS4O7YaUg\" target=\"_blank\">All Christian denominations explained in 12 minutes<\/a> (Redeemed Zoomer, YouTube): twelve minutes. Actually pretty good, also mildly amusing. Recommended by a student.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/newlyweds-in-san-francisco-looking-for-nice-one-bedroom-zero-bath-starter-tent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newlyweds In San Francisco Looking For Nice One Bedroom, Zero Bath Starter Tent<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stanfordflipside.com\/2023\/04\/i-tried-joining-abolish-greek-life-during-rush-but-they-told-me-i-was-too-fat-ugly-and-poor-to-join\/\" target=\"_blank\">I tried joining \u2018Abolish Greek Life\u2019 during rush, but they told me I was too fat, ugly, and poor to join.<\/a> (The Stanford Flipside)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/igotstandardsbro.com\/?ref=stanfordreview.org\" target=\"_blank\">Female Delusion Calculator<\/a> \u2014 amusing, I do not know how accurate it is. The methodology they describe seems sound, but I haven\u2019t double-checked the&nbsp;data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/die-on-it\" target=\"_blank\">Die On It<\/a> (SMBC) \u2014 the wordplay here is lowkey Biblical<\/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:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/11\/q-what-is-a-hole-a-were-not-sure\" target=\"_blank\">Q: What Is a Hole? A: We\u2019re Not Sure!<\/a> (Jason Kottke, personal website): \u201cAs for straws \u2014 reason tells me they only have one hole but I know in my heart they have two.\u201d&nbsp; From<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/11\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-276\" target=\"_blank\"> volume 276<\/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 399, a Harshad number. That means it is divisible by the sum of its digits. 3+9+9=21 \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/04\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 399\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":"Need things to tickle your brain? Skim these to see what stands out to you. 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