{"id":7486,"date":"2024-08-02T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2024-08-02T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T22:23:02","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/08\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-464","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 464"},"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><br><br>    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 464, which only has two prime fac\u00adtors: 2 and 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/news\/2024\/07\/24\/stanford-in-paris-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stan\u00adford in Paris 2024<\/a> (Stan\u00adford News): \u201cA school-record 60 Stan\u00adford-affil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded ath\u00adletes have qual\u00adi\u00adfied to com\u00adpete at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.\u2026 Nations rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded include the Unit\u00aded States (38), Cana\u00adda (5), Aus\u00adtralia (3), Israel (2), Switzer\u00adland (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Ger\u00admany (1), Greece (1), Hong Kong (1), Nige\u00adria (1), Philip\u00adpines (1), Sin\u00adga\u00adpore (1), Spain (1) and Venezuela (1).\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newthingsunderthesun.com\/pub\/svmf093n\/release\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Teach\u00aders and the Trans\u00admis\u00adsion of Excel\u00adlence<\/a> (Matt Clan\u00adcy, New Things Under The Sun): \u201cHere\u2019s a strik\u00ading fact: through 2022, one in two Nobel prize win\u00adners in physics, chem\u00adistry, and med\u00adi\u00adcine also had a Nobel prize win\u00adner as their aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic advi\u00adsor.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Men\u00adtor\u00adship mat\u00adters, and not just in acad\u00ade\u00admia. I have a friend who once told me, \u201cYou always need to learn up. Look above you and find peo\u00adple who have already achieved what you hope to achieve and spend as much time around them as you can.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/there-is-almost-no-liberalizing-religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There Is Almost No \u2018Lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adiz\u00ading Reli\u00adgion\u2019 in the Unit\u00aded States<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe more peo\u00adple go to church, the less lib\u00ader\u00adal they are. That\u2019s true across racial lines. That\u2019s also true in a lot of major Protes\u00adtant tra\u00addi\u00adtions includ\u00ading a few main\u00adline stal\u00adwarts like the Unit\u00aded Methodist Church and the PCUSA.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empha\u00adsis removed for read\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2024\/09\/trump-rally-prayers\/679152\/?gift=66OeTwjwIWd7-zlTK2lFDvxuOId-KeDNnRV79t8L1SY&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Most Reveal\u00ading Moment of a Trump Ral\u00adly<\/a> (McK\u00aday Cop\u00adpins, The Atlantic): \u201cTo under\u00adstand the evolv\u00ading psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy and beliefs of Trump\u2019s reli\u00adgious sup\u00adport\u00aders, I attempt\u00aded to review every prayer offered at his cam\u00adpaign events since he announced in Novem\u00adber 2022 that he would run again. Work\u00ading with a researcher, I com\u00adpiled 58 in total, the most recent from June 2024. The result\u00ading document\u2014at just over 17,000 words\u2014makes for a strange, reveal\u00ading reli\u00adgious text: benign in some places, blas\u00adphe\u00admous in oth\u00aders; con\u00adtra\u00addic\u00adto\u00adry and poignant and fright\u00aden\u00ading and sad and, per\u00adhaps most of all, beg\u00adging for exe\u00adge\u00adsis.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Inter\u00adest\u00ading con\u00adcept for an arti\u00adcle. Note that the author is Mor\u00admon, so fac\u00adtor that in when eval\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading his reli\u00adgious com\u00admen\u00adtary. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/07\/31\/opinion\/born-this-way-queerness-genetics.html?unlocked_article_code=1._00.pIJO.i-aatqvAPWCc&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peo\u00adple Say Queer Peo\u00adple Are Born That Way. It\u2019s More Com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded.<\/a> (Charles M. Blow, New York Times): \u201c&nbsp;\u2018Born this way\u2019 may, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, have been an over\u00adsim\u00adpli\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion. It\u2019s prob\u00ada\u00adbly clos\u00ader to the truth to say that peo\u00adple are \u2018formed this way.\u2019 As the com\u00adplex\u00adi\u00adty of human sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty has become clear\u00ader, sci\u00aden\u00adtists and writ\u00aders have attempt\u00aded to add nec\u00ades\u00adsary nuance to the sub\u00adject. But the slo\u00adgan remains entrenched in the cul\u00adture.\u2026 It is not only unsup\u00adport\u00adable by sci\u00adence but also does not cap\u00adture the full real\u00adi\u00adty of queer expe\u00adri\u00adence and is unjust to some mem\u00adbers of the queer com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty itself.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I am old enough to remem\u00adber when the \u201cborn this way\u201d argu\u00adment was the dom\u00adi\u00adnant rea\u00adson homo\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty gained widestream accep\u00adtance in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. Unlocked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/should-pornography-be-completely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Should Pornog\u00adra\u00adphy Be Com\u00adplete\u00adly Banned<\/a>? (Ryan Burge, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe share of Amer\u00adi\u00adcans who want no restric\u00adtions on porn has nev\u00ader been that high. It was 10% of the sam\u00adple back in the ear\u00adly 1970s and today it\u2019s dropped to a very small frac\u00adtion \u2014 just 4% of those who took the sur\u00advey in 2022. So, there\u2019s lit\u00adtle appetite for a lais\u00adsez-faire approach to pornog\u00adra\u00adphy.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2024\/08\/wedding-vows-marriage-love\/679306\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cou\u00adples, Stop Writ\u00ading Your Own Wed\u00adding Vows<\/a> (Cheryl Mendel\u00adson, The Atlantic): \u201cTra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal vows cre\u00adate an intense moment of qui\u00adet speech that height\u00adens the exu\u00adber\u00adance of the toasts, drink\u00ading, and danc\u00ading that fol\u00adlow. Replac\u00ading them with sen\u00adti\u00admen\u00adtal or jokey words turns the vow-tak\u00ading into an iron\u00adic per\u00adfor\u00admance of some\u00adthing the cou\u00adple is implic\u00adit\u00adly dis\u00adavow\u00ading. One of my friends regards tak\u00ading vows oth\u00ader than the tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal ones as \u2018like being on the wit\u00adness stand and answer\u00ading the ques\u00adtions you wish you had been asked.\u2019 He and his wife want\u00aded \u2018no irony\u2019 or attempts at wit in their vows, and \u2018redact\u00aded\u2019 theirs from a church rite.\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=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li>This is delight\u00adful: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/womenpostingws\/status\/1818699502301450603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/x.com\/womenpostingws\/status\/1818699502301450603<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/test-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Test<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2024\/07\/01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An Area For Improve\u00adment<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olympic Sports<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-welcomed-to-hell-with-an-icebreaker-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Man Wel\u00adcomed To Hell With An Ice\u00adbreak\u00ader Game<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/friend-assures-you-tv-show-gets-really-good-if-you-can-just-push-through-9-bad-seasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Friend Assures You TV Show Gets Real\u00adly Good If You Can Just Push Through 9 Bad Sea\u00adsons<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2966\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exam Num\u00adbers<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/30\/science\/sloth-bears-tigers-india.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This Is What Hap\u00adpens When Tigers Try to Sneak Up on Small Bears<\/a> (Andrew Chap\u00adman, New York Times): \u201cIn North Amer\u00adi\u00adca, full-grown bears are sel\u00addom forced to fight preda\u00adtors for their lives. But things are dif\u00adfer\u00adent for the sloth bear of the Indi\u00adan sub\u00adcon\u00adti\u00adnent. The ani\u00admals go head-to-head with some of the fiercest preda\u00adtors of all: tigers. While the big cats are fear\u00adsome, they don\u2019t find easy prey in the sloth bears, which are the size of a small black bear.\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 464, which only has two prime fac\u00adtors: 2 and 29. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Less \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/08\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-464\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 464\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":"","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":[131,181,160,113,117,136,135],"class_list":["post-7486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-athletics","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-lgbtq","tag-politics","tag-pornography","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1WK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486","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=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}