{"id":7420,"date":"2024-04-12T17:37:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2024-04-12T17:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:42:51","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/04\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-448","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 448"},"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 vol\u00adume 448, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Untouchable_number\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Untouchable_number\">an untouch\u00adable num\u00adber<\/a>. Which is an absolute\u00adly cool des\u00adig\u00adna\u00adtion for a num\u00adber to have.<\/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:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2024\/04\/12\/gossip-is-good-stanford-scientists-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gos\u00adsip is good, Stan\u00adford sci\u00aden\u00adtist sug\u00adgests<\/a> (Sarayu Pai, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cAlthough gos\u00adsip\u00ading is typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly cast in a neg\u00ada\u00adtive light, a study con\u00adduct\u00aded by researchers from Stan\u00adford and the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Mary\u00adland found that gos\u00adsip\u00ading may be a ben\u00ade\u00adfi\u00adcial prac\u00adtice, as long as infor\u00adma\u00adtion remains \u2018reli\u00adable.\u2019 Study co-author Michele Gelfand, who is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at the Grad\u00adu\u00adate School of Busi\u00adness, esti\u00admates that peo\u00adple gos\u00adsip an hour a day on aver\u00adage \u2014 defined as the \u2018exchange [of] per\u00adson\u00adal infor\u00adma\u00adtion about absent third par\u00adties.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded to me by a stu\u00addent, who said \u201cthese peo\u00adple need a dose of the King\u00addom prin\u00adci\u00adple of the week : gos\u00adsip is cor\u00adro\u00adsive!\u201d [Glen\u2019s note \u2014 the King\u00addom prin\u00adci\u00adple of the week is a thing we do in our Chi Alpha, and \u201cgos\u00adsip is cor\u00adro\u00adsive\u201d is one of them]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indeed they do, and this is use\u00adful launch\u00ading point for a brief dis\u00adcourse on gos\u00adsip. In this study, gos\u00adsip is defined as \u201cexchange [of] per\u00adson\u00adal infor\u00adma\u00adtion about absent third par\u00adties.\u201d But that\u2019s not what we\u2019re con\u00addemn\u00ading when we con\u00addemn gos\u00adsip! If some\u00adone tells you, \u201cwow \u2014 that Caleb guy is super charm\u00ading and hand\u00adsome\u201d and you reply, \u201cYou know he\u2019s mar\u00adried, right?\u201d then you\u2019ve done noth\u00ading wrong \u2014 that\u2019s not the sin of gos\u00adsip. But if you spread a false neg\u00ada\u00adtive rumor about Caleb \u201cyou know he does drugs, right?\u201d, that is the sin of gos\u00adsip. This study con\u00adflates those two very dif\u00adfer\u00adent con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The sin of gos\u00adsip can be described as <strong>bear\u00ading bad news behind some\u00adone\u2019s back with a bad heart<\/strong>. The bad news can be bad in the sense of being untrue or it can be bad in the sense of unnec\u00ades\u00adsary and unhelp\u00adful. For more on this help\u00adful fram\u00ading, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/what-is-gossip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Is Gos\u00adsip? Expos\u00ading a Com\u00admon and Dan\u00adger\u00adous Sin <\/a>(Matt Mitchell, Desir\u00ading God).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is a recur\u00adring pat\u00adtern, by the way: some researcher wants to study some\u00adthing inter\u00adest\u00ading but needs to oper\u00ada\u00adtional\u00adize a vari\u00adable in some unortho\u00addox way to make the research fea\u00adsi\u00adble. Then they do their research and find some\u00adthing that would be coun\u00adter\u00adin\u00adtu\u00aditive rel\u00ada\u00adtive to the orig\u00adi\u00adnal mean\u00ading of the word they\u2019re using (although maybe not that sur\u00adpris\u00ading giv\u00aden their oper\u00ada\u00adtional\u00adiza\u00adtion of the vari\u00adable), and then the media repeats it as a com\u00admen\u00adtary on the actu\u00adal thing \u2014 a thing which the sci\u00aden\u00adtists nev\u00ader stud\u00adied. In this case, the study did\u00adn\u2019t actu\u00adal\u00adly ana\u00adlyze the sin of gos\u00adsip, but nonethe\u00adless near the end of the arti\u00adcle we learn that \u201csome stu\u00addents with pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly neg\u00ada\u00adtive views of gos\u00adsip report see\u00ading it dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly in light of this study.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/why-we-fast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why We Fast<\/a> (Ross Byrd, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cFast\u00ading is no mag\u00adic fix. In fact, it\u2019s almost the exact oppo\u00adsite of a mag\u00adic fix. It takes time, patience, and discipline\u2014dare I say, suffering\u2014to see its fruit. But the fruit is no less than the abil\u00adi\u00adty to see more of God. Here are three ways to under\u00adstand Chris\u00adt\u00adian fast\u00ading: <em>1. Fast\u00ading makes space for God. 2. Fast\u00ading inter\u00adrupts and reori\u00adents our uncon\u00adscious pat\u00adterns. 3. Fast\u00ading gives us eyes to see the unseen.\u201d<\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal. Lots of good insights in this one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/04\/opinion\/little-women-grammar-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018Lit\u00adtle Women\u2019 and the Art of Break\u00ading Gram\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal Rules <\/a>(John McWhort\u00ader, New York Times): \u201cCurzan notes, for exam\u00adple, that the use of \u2018lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly\u2019 to exag\u00adger\u00adate is no recent anom\u00adaly but rather goes back to, for exam\u00adple, our \u2018Lit\u00adtle Women,\u2019 in which Louisa May Alcott has it that at a gath\u00ader\u00ading \u2018the land lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly flowed with milk and hon\u00adey.\u2019 The March girls, also, would have said \u2018sneaked\u2019 where, since just the 1970s, as Curzan charts, we have been increas\u00ading\u00adly like\u00adly to say \u2018snuck.\u2019 Are you a lit\u00adtle irked by the youngs say\u00ading \u2018based off of\u2019 rather than \u2018based on\u2019? That one threw me when I start\u00aded hear\u00ading my stu\u00addents say\u00ading it about 15 years ago; Curzan calms us down and demon\u00adstrates how ordi\u00adnary and even log\u00adi\u00adcal it is. Curzan is also good on the use of \u2018hope\u00adful\u00adly\u2019 to mean \u2018it is hoped.\u2019 This became a punch\u00ading bag only in the 1960s \u2014 until then, not even gram\u00admar scolds cared, too busy com\u00adplain\u00ading that, for exam\u00adple, the \u2018prop\u00ader\u2019 mean\u00ading of obnox\u00adious is \u2018sub\u00adject to harm.\u2019\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some more Israel\/Hamas com\u00admen\u00adtary\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2024\/april\/israel-hamas-war-palestinian-peace-reconciliation-musalaha.html?share=1e2sziSP3UgqgOwqxeGMDPuEzNbiX5Pp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frac\u00adtured Are the Peace\u00admak\u00aders<\/a> (Sophia Lee, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cI spent a week in Israel and the West Bank meet\u00ading Pales\u00adtin\u00adian Chris\u00adtians and Mes\u00adsian\u00adic Jews who are pas\u00adtors, youth lead\u00aders, YMCA lead\u00aders, tour guides, lawyers, and stu\u00addents. Many of them aren\u2019t pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal peace activists, but all of them, from what I could tell, take seri\u00adous\u00adly Jesus\u2019 Ser\u00admon on the Mount and strive to embody his procla\u00adma\u00adtion that \u2018blessed are the peace\u00admak\u00aders, for they will be called chil\u00addren of God\u2019 (Matt. 5:9). The prob\u00adlem is, I spoke to about two dozen indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals about what peace\u00admak\u00ading means and got almost two dozen dif\u00adfer\u00adent answers.\u201d Unlocked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/israel-has-created-new-standard-urban-warfare-why-will-no-one-admit-it-opinion-1883286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israel Has Cre\u00adat\u00aded a New Stan\u00addard for Urban War\u00adfare. Why Will No One Admit It<\/a>? (John Spencer, Newsweek): \u201cIn my long career study\u00ading and advis\u00ading on urban war\u00adfare for the U.S. mil\u00adi\u00adtary, I\u2019ve nev\u00ader known an army to take such mea\u00adsures to attend to the ene\u00admy\u2019s civil\u00adian pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion, espe\u00adcial\u00adly while simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly com\u00adbat\u00ading the ene\u00admy in the very same build\u00adings. In fact, by my analy\u00adsis, Israel has imple\u00adment\u00aded more pre\u00adcau\u00adtions to pre\u00advent civil\u00adian harm than any mil\u00adi\u00adtary in history\u2014above and beyond what inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal law requires and more than the U.S. did in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is the chair of urban war stud\u00adies at the Mod\u00adern War Insti\u00adtute at West Point. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acton.org\/religion-liberty\/volume-34-number-2\/there-shall-be-none-make-him-afraid-american-liberty-and-jews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There Shall Be None to Make Him Afraid: Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Lib\u00ader\u00adty and the Jews<\/a> (Mike Cosper, Acton Insti\u00adtute): \u201cHis\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly speak\u00ading, the emer\u00adgence of anti-Semi\u00adtism is always a sign of some\u00adthing poi\u00adso\u00adnous tak\u00ading root in a soci\u00adety. It doesn\u2019t just spell dan\u00adger for Jews; it spells dan\u00adger for every\u00adone. As Bari Weiss has put it, \u2018What starts with the Jews nev\u00ader ends with the Jews.\u2019 The rise of anti-Semi\u00adtism in Nazi Ger\u00admany, Sovi\u00adet Rus\u00adsia, and half a dozen Mid\u00addle East\u00adern states was quick\u00adly fol\u00adlowed by oth\u00ader forms of vio\u00adlence, tyran\u00adny, and author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan\u00adism.\u201d This is a long and sol\u00adid arti\u00adcle that cov\u00aders much more than anti-Semi\u00adtism (although that is at its heart).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/schools-are-using-research-to-try-to-improve-childrens-learning-but-its-not-working-226348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Schools are using research to try to improve children\u2019s learn\u00ading \u2013 but it\u2019s not work\u00ading<\/a> (Sal\u00adly Rior\u00addan, The Con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion): \u201cA series of ran\u00addomised con\u00adtrolled tri\u00adals, includ\u00ading one look\u00ading at how to improve lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adcy through evi\u00addence, have sug\u00adgest\u00aded that schools that use meth\u00adods based on research are not per\u00adform\u00ading bet\u00adter than schools that do not.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>British con\u00adtext, hence the spelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2024\/04\/the-anti-fragile-brendan-eich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Anti-Frag\u00adile Bren\u00addan Eich<\/a> (Andrew Beck, First Things): \u201cI am not here to com\u00adplain about can\u00adcel cul\u00adture. Bren\u00addan Eich does not. He is too busy. He refus\u00ades to be defined by the evil done to him, or by the pur\u00adport\u00aded het\u00adero\u00addoxy of his beliefs, but by the work he does and by his char\u00adac\u00adter, as known by those clos\u00adest to him. Rather than tak\u00ading to the air\u00adwaves and lean\u00ading into the role of mar\u00adtyr, as have so many oth\u00aders who have endured sim\u00adi\u00adlar abuse, Eich nev\u00ader speaks pub\u00adlicly about the wrong done to him\u2014not once even in pri\u00advate to me. Instead, he dili\u00adgent\u00adly pur\u00adsues his voca\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/11\/opinion\/pro-life-alabama-trump.html?ugrp=u&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.j00.M8tI.FGXXsB2qilZU&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Great Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Move\u00adment<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cThe old\u00ader I get, the more I\u2019m con\u00advinced that we sim\u00adply don\u2019t know who we are \u2014 or what we tru\u00adly believe \u2014 until our val\u00adues car\u00adry a cost. For more than 40 years, the Repub\u00adli\u00adcan Par\u00adty has made the case that life begins at con\u00adcep\u00adtion. Alabama\u2019s Supreme Court agreed. Yet the Repub\u00adli\u00adcan Par\u00adty can\u2019t live with its own phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy. There is no tru\u00adly pro-life par\u00adty in the Unit\u00aded States.\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:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/i-dont-want-to-go-to-church-its-full-of-hypocrites-says-hypocrite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018I Don\u2019t Want To Go To Church, It\u2019s Full Of Hyp\u00adocrites,\u2019 Says Hyp\u00adocrite<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/pastors-popularity-skyrockets-after-church-installs-skip-intro-option\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pas\u00adtor\u2019s Pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty Sky\u00adrock\u00adets After Church Installs \u2018Skip Intro\u2019 Option<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-accidentally-made-a-mouse-grow-legs-in-place-of-genitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sci\u00aden\u00adtists Acci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly Made a Mouse Grow Legs in Place of Gen\u00adi\u00adtals<\/a> (Tes\u00adsa Koumoundouros, Sci\u00adence Alert): \u201cI did\u00adn\u2019t choose the project, the project chose me,\u201d Mal\u00adlo told Sara Rear\u00addon at Nature News.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zQANxTnLFUg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 Things I Secret\u00adly Love About The North<\/a> (Matt Mitchell, YouTube): four min\u00adutes amus\u00ading for a South\u00adern\u00ader like me<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gAfWL8rTTxU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Cham\u00adpi\u00adon Marko\u00adbi<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): nine min\u00adutes, mind blow\u00ading at points<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/M6M6a4W1ZPc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ben Jack\u00adson \u2014 Mag\u00adic with Yarn Balls<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): ten min\u00adutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/which-places-earth-see-most-solar-eclipses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Which places on Earth wit\u00adness the most solar eclipses?<\/a> (Robert Lea, Space.com): \u201cEclipses aren\u2019t actu\u00adal\u00adly that rare, with total solar eclipses hap\u00adpen\u00ading some\u00adwhere on the globe around every 16 months and par\u00adtial solar eclipses hap\u00adpen\u00ading even more fre\u00adquent\u00adly, once every five months or so.\u2026 The team\u2019s results sug\u00adgest that a ran\u00addom city on Earth would expe\u00adri\u00adence a total solar eclipse, on aver\u00adage, around once every 374 years. The same city would expe\u00adri\u00adence an annu\u00adlar or \u2018ring of fire\u2019 eclipse around once every 226 years and a par\u00adtial solar eclipse around every 2.6 years.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 \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\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\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.\n\nAlso, 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.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded 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 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. This is vol\u00adume 448, an untouch\u00adable num\u00adber. Which is an absolute\u00adly cool des\u00adig\u00adna\u00adtion for a num\u00adber to have. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/04\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-448\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 448\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":"Lots of links with longer than normal commentary from me on what's wrong with gossip (along with some comments on what's wrong with popular understanding of scientific research)","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":[121,182,120,248,148,135],"class_list":["post-7420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-abortion","tag-education","tag-famous-christians","tag-fasting","tag-israel","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1VG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420","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=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}