{"id":7600,"date":"2025-01-03T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T03:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2025-01-03T19:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T03:35:05","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/01\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-485","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 485"},"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\">In this first email of 2025, I\u2019d like to pass along an alum\u00adnus\u2019s obser\u00adva\u00adtion that 2025 is equal to 1<sup>3<\/sup> + 2<sup>3<\/sup> + 3<sup>3<\/sup> + 4<sup>3<\/sup> + 5<sup>3<\/sup> + 6<sup>3<\/sup> + 7<sup>3<\/sup> + 8<sup>3<\/sup> + 9<sup>3<\/sup> which is also equal to (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even cool\u00ader, he point\u00aded out that 2025 equals (20+25)<sup>(20\/(2*5))<\/sup>  or just (20+25)<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Num\u00adbers do fun things.<\/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:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/how-intellectuals-found-god-ayaan-hirsi-ali-peter-thiel-jordan-peterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals Found God<\/a> (Peter Savod\u00adnik, The Free Press): \u201cInstead of smirk\u00ading at reli\u00adgion, some of our most impor\u00adtant philoso\u00adphers, nov\u00adel\u00adists, and pub\u00adlic intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals are now reassess\u00ading their con\u00adtempt for it. They are won\u00adder\u00ading if they might have missed some\u00adthing.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/h5n1-much-more-than-you-wanted-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H5N1: Much More Than You Want\u00aded To Know<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Astral Codex Ten): \u201cI con\u00adclude that the most plau\u00adsi\u00adble esti\u00admate for the chance of an H5N1 pan\u00addem\u00adic in the next year is <strong>5%<\/strong>.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pret\u00adty much exact\u00adly how much I want\u00aded to know and explained well. Reas\u00adsur\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sashachapin.substack.com\/p\/how-to-like-everything-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to like every\u00adthing more<\/a> (Sasha Chapin, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn my expe\u00adri\u00adence, high-lev\u00adel enjoy\u00adment, like a sport, is com\u00adposed of many inter\u00adlock\u00ading micro-skills that must be trained indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, but which rein\u00adforce each oth\u00ader.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/walkingtheworld.substack.com\/p\/america-the-beautiful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amer\u00adi\u00adca, the beau\u00adti\u00adful<\/a> (Chris Arnade, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cWe are an ide\u00adal for a large por\u00adtion of the world, and while that ide\u00adal isn\u2019t always a real\u00adi\u00adty that we live up to, very few peo\u00adple come here, then turn around and go back, because with enough ded\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtion, you can cre\u00adate your own form of ful\u00adfill\u00adment here. The US is a vast fed\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of micro com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties and micro cul\u00adtures, all bound togeth\u00ader by the belief, how\u00adev\u00ader ten\u00adta\u00adtive and neb\u00adu\u00adlous, in the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Dream.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A fre\u00adquent crit\u00adic of Amer\u00adi\u00adca explains why he loves it nonethe\u00adless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/africa\/africa-has-entered-a-new-era-of-war-c6171d8e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Africa Has Entered a New Era of War<\/a> (Gabriele Stein\u00adhauser, Andrew Bar\u00adnett and Emma Brown, Wall Street Jour\u00adnal): \u201cAfrica is now expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading more con\u00adflicts than at any point since at least 1946, accord\u00ading to data col\u00adlect\u00aded by Upp\u00adsala Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in Swe\u00adden and ana\u00adlyzed by Norway\u2019s Peace Research Insti\u00adtute Oslo. This year alone, experts at the two insti\u00adtutes have iden\u00adti\u00adfied 28 state-based con\u00adflicts across 16 of the continent\u2019s 54 coun\u00adtries, more than in any oth\u00ader region in the world and dou\u00adble the count just a decade and a half ago. That tal\u00adly doesn\u2019t include con\u00adflicts that don\u2019t involve gov\u00adern\u00adment forces, for instance between dif\u00adfer\u00adent com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties, and whose num\u00adber has also dou\u00adbled since 2010.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vast\u00adly under\u00adre\u00adport\u00aded in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. If you ask most Amer\u00adi\u00adcans what wars are rag\u00ading right now they\u2019d be able to iden\u00adti\u00adfy Russia\/Ukraine and Israel\/Hamas and not much else. But there\u2019s a lot else. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikipedi\u00ada\u2019s sum\u00adma\u00adry<\/a> puts the cur\u00adrent tal\u00adly at 19 full-blown wars, 20 sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant con\u00adflicts and 15 skir\u00admish\u00ades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/listeningtothesirens.substack.com\/p\/can-you-cancel-a-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Can You Can\u00adcel a Coun\u00adtry<\/a>? (Russ Roberts, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe fans of set\u00adtler colo\u00adnial\u00adism love hat\u00ading Israel because Israel is so young. You can\u2019t return Amer\u00adi\u00adca to 1619, say. In Amer\u00adi\u00adca, there are over 325 mil\u00adlion set\u00adtlers and only 7 mil\u00adlion Native Amer\u00adi\u00adcans. Decol\u00ado\u00adniz\u00ading the Unit\u00aded States is unimag\u00adin\u00adable. So is decol\u00ado\u00adniz\u00ading Israel, real\u00adly. But it\u2019s more imag\u00adin\u00adable than the Unit\u00aded States. The defend\u00aders of Israel see Israel as the tip of the sword fight\u00ading against ter\u00adror\u00adism and Jihadism. For the those who use the set\u00adtler colo\u00adnial\u00adism lens, Hamas is the tip of the sword against set\u00adtler colo\u00adnial\u00adism.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Roberts is an econ\u00ado\u00admist, a fel\u00adlow at Stan\u00adford\u2019s Hoover Insti\u00adtu\u00adtion, and the pres\u00adi\u00addent of Shalem Col\u00adlege in Jerusalem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/27\/science\/biomass-garbage-construction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU4.nLP8.0nhjOF5B3hIr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Cen\u00adtu\u00adry of Human Detri\u00adtus, Visu\u00adal\u00adized<\/a> (Den\u00adnis Over\u00adbye, New York Times): \u201c&nbsp;\u2018The web\u00adsite enables many com\u00adpar\u00adisons that, once seen, can no longer be unseen,\u2019 he said. For instance, humans out\u00adweigh wild ani\u00admals 10 to 1, a fact that sur\u00adprised Dr. M\u00e9nard. (\u2018In my expe\u00adri\u00adence, most peo\u00adple expect the oppo\u00adsite.\u2019) But we weigh only half as much as the live\u00adstock herds we main\u00adtain to eat. Per\u00adhaps more omi\u00adnous\u00adly, humans use 100 times their own mass in plas\u00adtic.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unlocked. Also, you can see the inter\u00adac\u00adtive visu\u00adal\u00adiza\u00adtion at <a href=\"https:\/\/biocubes.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/biocubes.net\/<\/a><\/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.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2025\/01\/03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prayer Emo\u00adji<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/disney-announces-live-action-remake-of-animated-remake-of-live-action-remake-of-animated-remake-of-live-action-remake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dis\u00adney Announces Live-Action Remake Of Ani\u00admat\u00aded Remake Of Live-Action Remake Of Ani\u00admat\u00aded Remake Of Live-Action Remake<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfer.com\/news\/100-foot-wave-possibly-surfed-mavericks-alo-slebir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100-Foot Wave Surfed at Mav\u00ader\u00adick\u00ad\u2019s? Poten\u00adtial\u00adly.<\/a> (Dashel Pier\u00adson, Surfer): \u201cNev\u00ader\u00adthe\u00adless, there\u2019s a new con\u00adtender for the Guin\u00adness World Record of \u2018Largest Wave Surfed,\u2019 as tossed into the ring by Alessan\u00addro \u2018Alo\u2019 Slebir with his mon\u00adster ride at Maverick\u2019s from Decem\u00adber 23rd, 2024. It\u2019s spec\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded, poten\u00adtial\u00adly, that Alo\u2019s wave mea\u00adsured 108 feet. And that would smash the cur\u00adrent record held by Sebas\u00adt\u00adian Steudt\u00adner and his 86-foot\u00ader at Nazar\u00e9, Por\u00adtu\u00adgal in 2020.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mav\u00ader\u00adick\u00ad\u2019s is, of course, at near\u00adby San\u00adta Cruz. Here\u2019s a two-minute news seg\u00adment about it: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hnTyMBJEEHM&amp;list=LL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">San\u00adta Cruz man rides poten\u00adtial record wave<\/a> (NBC Bay Area)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/lost-veggietales-episode-discovered-where-david-brings-king-saul-200-severed-pickle-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lost Veg\u00adgi\u00adeTales Episode Dis\u00adcov\u00adered Where David Brings King Saul 200 Sev\u00adered Pick\u00adle Tips<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/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. In this first email of 2025, I\u2019d like to pass along an alum\u00adnus\u2019s obser\u00adva\u00adtion that 2025 is equal \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/01\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-485\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 485\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":[266,168,160,148,275,247],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-africa","tag-america","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-israel","tag-pandemic","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1YA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","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=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}