{"id":7508,"date":"2024-08-30T17:57:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2024-08-30T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:57:32","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/08\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-468","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 468"},"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 468, which is writ\u00adten as 3333 in base 5. I find that pret\u00adty cool.<\/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:\/\/christianitytoday.com\/news\/2024\/august\/christian-migrant-immigration-religion-world-pew-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Near\u00adly Half of the World\u2019s Migrants Are Chris\u00adt\u00adian<\/a> (Chlo\u00eb-Ari\u00adzona Fodor, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cWhile Chris\u00adtians make up about 30 per\u00adcent of the world\u2019s pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion, the world\u2019s migrants are 47 per\u00adcent Chris\u00adt\u00adian, accord\u00ading to the lat\u00adest data col\u00adlect\u00aded in 2020.\u2026 US migrants are much more like\u00adly to have a reli\u00adgious iden\u00adti\u00adty than the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan-born pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion in gen\u00ader\u00adal. The influx of reli\u00adgious migrants can have a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant impact on the reli\u00adgious com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion of their des\u00adti\u00adna\u00adtion coun\u00adtries. In the case of the US, \u2018immi\u00adgrants are kind of putting the brakes on sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adiza\u00adtion,\u2019 Kramer said.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2024\/08\/23\/miss-usa-alma-cooper-ms-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meet new\u00adly crowned Miss USA Alma Coop\u00ader M.S. \u201925<\/a> (Semi\u00adra Aro\u00adra, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cBefore Stan\u00adford, Coop\u00ader grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded in the top five per\u00adcent of her class at West Point. Cur\u00adrent\u00adly, she is a part of the high\u00adly selec\u00adtive Knight-Hen\u00adnessy schol\u00adar\u00adship pro\u00adgram, which aims to cul\u00adti\u00advate mul\u00adti\u00addis\u00adci\u00adpli\u00adnary lead\u00aders and offers schol\u00adars up to three years of fund\u00ading for grad\u00adu\u00adate stud\u00adies.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morbidlycuriousthoughts.com\/p\/a-scary-date-can-help-you-find-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Scary Date Can Help You Find a Good Mate<\/a> (Coltan Scrivn\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cFemale par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants enjoyed the hor\u00adror clip the most when watch\u00ading with a male who dis\u00adplayed mas\u00adtery, while male par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants enjoyed it most in the pres\u00adence of a dis\u00adtressed female. For males con\u00adfed\u00ader\u00adates whose pho\u00adtographs were rat\u00aded less attrac\u00adtive, dis\u00adplay\u00ading mas\u00adtery <em>increased<\/em> how attrac\u00adtive they were per\u00adceived by the female par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpant that watched the clip with them. In oth\u00ader words, women enjoyed a scary sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion more when they expe\u00adri\u00adenced it with a man who dis\u00adplayed mas\u00adtery of their fear, and those men were, in some cas\u00ades, seen as more attrac\u00adtive than men who dis\u00adplayed indif\u00adfer\u00adence or dis\u00adtress.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a Behav\u00adioral Sci\u00aden\u00adtist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cc.au.dk\/en\/recreational-fear-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recre\u00adation\u00adal Fear Lab<\/a> at Aarhus Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in Den\u00admark and also has an appoint\u00adment in the Psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy Depart\u00adment at Ari\u00adzona State Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. The \u201cRecre\u00adation\u00adal Fear Lab\u201d \u2014 what an amaz\u00ading name!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/24\/us\/universities-campus-protests-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Train\u00ading and Tougher Rules: How Col\u00adleges Are Try\u00ading to Tame Gaza Protests<\/a> (Alan Blind\u00ader, New York Times): \u201cThe strate\u00adgies that are com\u00ading into pub\u00adlic view sug\u00adgest that some admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtors at schools large and small have con\u00adclud\u00aded that per\u00admis\u00adsive\u00adness is per\u00adilous, and that a hard\u00ader line may be the best option \u2014 or per\u00adhaps just the one least like\u00adly to invite blow\u00adback from elect\u00aded offi\u00adcials and donors who have demand\u00aded that uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties take stronger action against pro\u00adtest\u00aders.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/27\/us\/umich-gaza-protests-student-government.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">At Michi\u00adgan, Activists Take Over and Shut Down Stu\u00addent Gov\u00adern\u00adment<\/a> (Hali\u00adna Ben\u00adnet, New York Times): \u201cBut last spring, pro-Pales\u00adtin\u00adian activists, run\u00adning under the Shut It Down par\u00adty, won con\u00adtrol over the stu\u00addent gov\u00adern\u00adment. They imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly moved to with\u00adhold fund\u00ading for all activ\u00adi\u00adties, until the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty com\u00admit\u00adted to divest from com\u00adpa\u00adnies that prof\u00adit from Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.\u2026 When cam\u00adpaign\u00ading for stu\u00addent gov\u00adern\u00adment, the Shut It Down par\u00adty did not keep its inten\u00adtions a secret. Its plat\u00adform \u2018ran with one sin\u00adgle point: to halt the oper\u00ada\u00adtions of the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Michi\u00adgan Cen\u00adtral Stu\u00addent Gov\u00adern\u00adment,\u2019 Ali\u00adfa Chowd\u00adhury, the pres\u00adi\u00addent of the par\u00adty, wrote in a state\u00adment to The Times.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/26\/opinion\/gossiping-fun-natural-complain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gos\u00adsip\u00ading Is Fun. It\u2019s Nat\u00adur\u00adal. And These Peo\u00adple Won\u2019t Do It<\/a>. (Michal Lei\u00adbowitz, New York Times): \u201cI found the lives and rela\u00adtion\u00adships described by the abstain\u00aders com\u00adpelling. I was intrigued by their opti\u00admism, by their grace, by their com\u00admit\u00adment to judg\u00ading oth\u00aders by their best fea\u00adtures. Which is not to say I\u2019ve sworn off gos\u00adsip entire\u00adly. But I\u2019ve def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly cut back. And what do you know? The less I judge peo\u00adple, the less I want to judge peo\u00adple. The less I com\u00adplain, the less I want to com\u00adplain. The less, maybe, that I even <em>see<\/em> things to com\u00adplain about.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/stories\/2024\/08\/how-your-mindset-could-affect-your-response-to-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How your mind\u00adset could affect your response to vac\u00adcines<\/a> (Tay\u00adlor Kub\u00ado\u00adta, Stan\u00adford News): \u201cIt\u2019s impor\u00adtant to remem\u00adber that our body\u2019s respons\u00ades to any\u00adthing \u2013 the med\u00adica\u00adtions we take, the foods we eat, and the stress we expe\u00adri\u00adence \u2013 are influ\u00adenced by our mind\u00adsets as well as the objec\u00adtive prop\u00ader\u00adties of those things. And this is also true of the COVID-19 vac\u00adcine. Our mind\u00adsets about the vac\u00adcine can affect not just how we feel after\u00adward but also our expe\u00adri\u00adence with side effects. And in some instances, your mind\u00adset about the vac\u00adcine\u2019s side effects can poten\u00adtial\u00adly influ\u00adence your immune response.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded to me by a med\u00adical doc\u00adtor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/27\/opinion\/gaza-protests-venezuela.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Can We Be a Lit\u00adtle Less Selec\u00adtive With Our Moral Out\u00adrage<\/a>? (Bret Stephens, New York Times): \u201cOf all the world\u2019s injus\u00adtices, per\u00adhaps the sad\u00addest is that so many of them are sim\u00adply ignored.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A depress\u00ading list of a bunch of hor\u00adri\u00adble gov\u00adern\u00adments around the world.<\/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 simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/outside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Out\u00adside<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/study-shows-9-out-of-10-astronauts-choose-to-be-stranded-in-space-rather-than-board-craft-built-by-boeing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Study Shows 9 Out Of 10 Astro\u00adnauts Choose To Be Strand\u00aded In Space Rather Than Board Craft Built By Boe\u00ading<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2977\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Three Kinds of Research<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/schrdingers-neighbors-say-thought-experiment-very-interesting-but-they-would-really-just-like-a-straight-answer-on-where-their-cat-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Neigh\u00adbors Say Thought Exper\u00adi\u00adment Very Inter\u00adest\u00ading But They Would Real\u00adly Just Like A Straight Answer On Where Their Cat Is<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sf-culture\/article\/anh-phoong-billboard-how-much-cost-19728948.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anh Phoong\u2019s bill\u00adboards made her a Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia icon. Here\u2019s the price tag.<\/a> (Tim\u00ado\u00adthy Karoff, SF Gate): \u201cTo get a more pre\u00adcise fig\u00adure, SFGATE reached out to Phoong to ask direct\u00adly: How much have you spent on bill\u00adboards this year? While Phoong told SFGATE that she doesn\u2019t have an exact fig\u00adure (\u2018We\u2019re still count\u00ading,\u2019 she said), the esti\u00admate is huge. \u2018Right now, we\u2019re hit\u00adting about $3 mil\u00adlion,\u2019 she said.\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 468, which is writ\u00adten as 3333 in base 5. I find that pret\u00adty cool. Things \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/08\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-468\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 468\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":[156,222,161,275,135],"class_list":["post-7508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-campus-activism","tag-dating","tag-global-christianity","tag-pandemic","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1X6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508","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=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7509,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}