{"id":7266,"date":"2023-09-01T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7266"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:21:12","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/09\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-418","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 418"},"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 418, and 418 has the interesting property that the sum of its prime factors is equal to the products of its digits. In other words, 2+11+19=32=4\u00b71\u00b78<\/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>This 5 minute TikTok on Twitter is very much worth your time: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deejayfaremi\/status\/1694972810978799727\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/deejayfaremi\/status\/1694972810978799727<\/a> \u2014 it gets better and better. I\u2019m strongly tempted to show it during a worship service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/daniel-surviving-university-babylon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel\u2019s 3 Tips for Surviving the University of Babylon<\/a> (Catie Robertson &amp; Andrew M. Selby, The Gospel Coalition): \u201cTrying to feel vaguely close to God and fraternizing frequently with the lost (in the name of winsome love) may be nice, but it likely won\u2019t be effective as a long-term strategy for evangelism, let alone for the health of our own faith.\u2026If we form pockets of resistance with believers, the university itself will be&nbsp;saved.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recommended by a student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230419071607\/https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2023\/05\/ice-cream-bad-for-you-health-study\/673487\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nutrition Science\u2019s Most Preposterous Result<\/a> (David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic): \u201cBack in 2018, a Harvard doctoral student named Andres Ardisson Korat was presenting his research on the relationship between dairy foods and chronic disease to his thesis committee. One of his studies had led him to an unusual conclusion: Among diabetics, eating half a cup of ice cream a day was associated with a lower risk of heart problems. Needless to say, the idea that a dessert loaded with saturated fat and sugar might actually be good for you raised some eyebrows at the nation\u2019s most influential department of nutrition.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unlocked. Fun to read, and with implications beyond diet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/insight\/2023\/08\/27\/politics-trump-biden-media-fatigue-salena-zito\/stories\/202308270039\" target=\"_blank\">Everyone\u2019s tired of politics<\/a> (Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette): \u201cIf you spent your time watching the news or trolling social media every day \u2014 which is literally the job description for many national journalists \u2014 you might assume that nearly every person in the country is invested in either Trump or Biden. However, when you drive to places where the speed limit is 35 miles an hour, you find a different reality. And that\u2019s the problem with how the country too often is covered these days. Our politics would likely improve \u2014 somewhat at least \u2014 if more in the media checked their assumptions and listened to the people they purport to&nbsp;cover.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I certainly feel this. I haven\u2019t been sharing articles about the Trump indictment or the Biden family corruption or the age of politicians or the Republican debate because I simply don\u2019t find the articles I read about them interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2023\/8\/21\/an-anguished-nothing-in-particular-believer-shakes-up-country-music-establishment\" target=\"_blank\">An anguished \u2018nothing in particular\u2019 believer shakes up country music establishment<\/a> (Terry Mattingly, GetReligion): \u201cAs for faith, Anthony added: \u2018I spent a long time being an angry little agnostic punk. \u2026 I had sort of perverted what my vision of God was, because I looked at the religion of man as God and not God Himself. But there is a Divine Creator who loves you and sometimes it takes falling down on your knees and getting ready to call things quits before it becomes obvious that He\u2019s there. But He\u2019s always there.\u2019 It would appear, said Watson, that this hillbilly songwriter is \u2013 to use a popular research term \u2013 a \u2018nothing in particular\u2019 believer, one without ties to organized religion. This is precisely the kind of American that many church leaders are struggling to understand.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I think many of you have heard me say that the delight of some secular pundits over the rise of the \u201cnones\u201d is misplaced. They aren\u2019t atheists. They\u2019re just not really churchgoers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Related to the \u201cnones\u201d: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/praying-coach-joe-kennedy-comeback?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh off a Supreme Court Win, the Praying Coach Takes the Field<\/a> (Julia Duin, The Free Press): \u201cHe has also left his church\u2014Newlife South Kitsap in Port Orchard\u2014chiefly because then-school superintendent Leavell also attended the congregation. The pastors at the church \u2018kind of distanced themselves from the very beginning,\u2019 Kennedy said. They met with Kennedy and Leavell separately \u2018and asked if we could get along and work this out. They didn\u2019t want to choose sides.\u2019 Though Kennedy said he wasn\u2019t fully supported by his church, he feels \u2018bad\u2019 for Leavell and his kids, because \u2018they were asked, \u2018Why doesn\u2019t your dad like praying?\u2019 and \u2018Why don\u2019t they like Christians?\u2019\u2019 People, Kennedy said, \u2018don\u2019t understand this was a big political and Constitutional thing.\u2019 Kennedy said he and his wife have been \u2018spiritually homeless\u2019 since&nbsp;2020.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fascinating details in here I\u2019ve not seen anywhere else.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Note that as a \u201cspiritually homeless\u201d non-church attender this guy would now qualify as one of the \u201cnones\u201d in most surveys, and he was at the heart of a major religious liberty case. The \u201cnones\u201d are not always who people think they&nbsp;are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/31\/still-no-evidence-of-mass-graves-of-indigenous-children-in-canada\/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\">No human remains found 2 years after claims of \u2018mass graves\u2019 in Canada<\/a> (Dana Kennedy, NY Post): \u201cTom Flanagan, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary, told The Post Wednesday that he sees the issue as a \u2018moral panic\u2019 similar to the hysteria over repressed memories and alleged Satanic cults in schools in the US in the 1980s and \u201990s.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Related: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2021_Canadian_church_burnings\" target=\"_blank\">2021 Canadian church burnings<\/a>. (Wikipedia): \u201cA series of vandalizations, church arsons, and suspicious fires in June and July 2021 desecrated, damaged, or destroyed 68 Christian churches in Canada. Coincident with fires, vandalism and other destructive events damaged churches in Canada and the United States, primarily in British Columbia. Of these, 25 were the results of fires of all causes. Canadian government officials, church members, and Canadian Indigenous leaders have speculated that the fires and other acts of vandalism have been reactions to the May 2021 reports of alleged discovery of over 1,000 unmarked graves at Canadian Indian residential school sites.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingai.org\/p\/driverless-cars-may-already-be-safer\" target=\"_blank\">Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers<\/a> (Timothy B. Lee, Substack): \u201cFor this story, I read through every crash report Waymo and Cruise filed in California this year, as well as reports each company filed about the performance of their driverless vehicles (with no safety drivers) prior to 2023. In total, the two companies reported 102 crashes involving driverless vehicles. That may sound like a lot, but they happened over roughly 6 million miles of driving. That works out to one crash for every 60,000 miles, which is about five years of driving for a typical human motorist. These were overwhelmingly low-speed collisions that did not pose a serious safety risk. A large majority appeared to be the fault of the other driver.\u201d<\/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 href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yayalexisgay\/status\/1695155520443760931\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yayalexisgay\/status\/1695155520443760931\">When You Definitely Understand Your Boyfriend\u2019s Finance Job<\/a> (Alexis Gay, Twitter Video)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2023\/08\/28\" target=\"_blank\">Motivational Posters<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/singer-nails-national-anthem-by-just-not-changing-any-of-the-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singer Nails National Anthem By Just Not Changing Any Of The Notes<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/common-proverbs-as-video-game-tutorials\" target=\"_blank\">Common Proverbs as Video Game Tutorials<\/a> (Matthew S. Burns, McSweeney\u2019s): \u201cChange class to Chooser? (WARNING: You will lose all skill points in Beggar.)\u201d Mildly amusing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/its-a-really-good-show-besides-the-nudity-homosexuality-violence-swearing-and-drug-use-says-christian\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018It\u2019s A Really Good Show Besides The Nudity, Homosexuality, Violence, Swearing, And Drug Use,\u2019 Says Christian<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>. 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