{"id":7777,"date":"2025-08-22T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:46:40","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/08\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-518","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 518"},"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\" 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 width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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>\n\n    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<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\/im-30-the-sexual-revolution-shackled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I\u2019m 30. The Sex\u00adu\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion Shack\u00adled My Gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion.<\/a> (Louise Per\u00adry, The Free Press): \u201cWe need to re-erect the social guard rails that have been torn down. To do that, we have to start by stat\u00ading the obvi\u00adous: Sex must be tak\u00aden seri\u00adous\u00adly. Men and women are dif\u00adfer\u00adent. Some desires are bad. Con\u00adsent is not enough. Vio\u00adlence is not love. Love\u00adless sex is not empow\u00ader\u00ading. Peo\u00adple are not prod\u00aducts. Mar\u00adriage is good.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FYI: the cov\u00ader image is risque.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/21\/opinion\/mobile-phones-college-classrooms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s What Hap\u00adpened When I Made My Col\u00adlege Stu\u00addents Put Away Their Phones<\/a> (Ezekiel J. Emanuel, New York Times): \u201cTo help sell this pol\u00adi\u00adcy, I pre\u00adsent\u00aded in the first lec\u00adture of the course a study show\u00ading that stu\u00addents who were required to take class notes by hand retained sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly more infor\u00adma\u00adtion than stu\u00addents who used com\u00adput\u00aders. The rea\u00adson is that with com\u00adput\u00aders, stu\u00addents can type as fast as I speak and strive for ver\u00adba\u00adtim tran\u00adscripts, but there is almost no men\u00adtal pro\u00adcess\u00ading of the class\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s con\u00adtent. Con\u00adverse\u00adly, vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly no one can hand write 125 words per minute for 90 min\u00adutes. Thus, hand\u00adwrit\u00adten notes require simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous men\u00adtal pro\u00adcess\u00ading to deter\u00admine the impor\u00adtant points that need record\u00ading. This pro\u00adcess\u00ading encodes the mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal in the brain dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly and facil\u00adi\u00adtates longer-term reten\u00adtion. The data on the dis\u00adtract\u00ading effect of mobile phones \u00e2\u20ac\u201d even when they are face down and turned off \u00e2\u20ac\u201d are strong.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a med school prof at Penn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/stories\/2025\/08\/moderate-alcohol-consumption-drinking-health-benefits-impacts-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is mod\u00ader\u00adate drink\u00ading actu\u00adal\u00adly healthy? Sci\u00aden\u00adtists say the idea is out\u00addat\u00aded.<\/a> (Stan\u00adford News): \u201cWe have bought into a sto\u00adry\u00adline about alco\u00adhol that, when you real\u00adly look at the facts, is not there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Stafford said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a mythol\u00ado\u00adgy about alco\u00adhol hav\u00ading pos\u00adi\u00adtive ben\u00ade\u00adfits as well as alco\u00adhol being neu\u00adtral for human health.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/20\/us\/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tac\u00adtics Mean Many Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Stu\u00addents Won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Make It to Cam\u00adpus<\/a> (Anemona Har\u00adto\u00adcol\u00adlis, New York Times): \u201cIn Chi\u00adna and India, there have been few visa appoint\u00adments avail\u00adable for stu\u00addents in recent months, and some\u00adtimes none at all, accord\u00ading to the Asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion of Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Edu\u00adca\u00adtors, also known as NAFSA, a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. If visa prob\u00adlems per\u00adsist, new inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal stu\u00addent enroll\u00adment in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan col\u00adleges could drop by 30 to 40 per\u00adcent over\u00adall this fall, a loss of 150,000 stu\u00addents, accord\u00ading to the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s analy\u00adsis.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-happens-when-an-entire-scientific-field-changes-its-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Hap\u00adpens When an Entire Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Field Changes Its Mind<\/a> (Charles Mann, Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Amer\u00adi\u00adcan): \u201c[There is] a pop\u00adu\u00adlar notion of sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic progress as a series of upheavals in which mav\u00ader\u00adicks throw out the entrenched views of the past.\u2026 But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not how sci\u00adence works. Or, more pre\u00adcise\u00adly, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not how sci\u00adence works except in two spe\u00adcif\u00adic, rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly unusu\u00adal cir\u00adcum\u00adstances. The first is when research dis\u00adci\u00adplines are young, thin\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded and just devel\u00adop\u00ading instru\u00adments of suf\u00adfi\u00adcient pow\u00ader to test their ini\u00adtial beliefs, as was the case with the Michel\u00adson-Mor\u00adley exper\u00adi\u00adment and Pasteur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fer\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion. The sec\u00adond, pos\u00adsi\u00adbly more con\u00adse\u00adquen\u00adtial sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is when sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic find\u00adings lead to so much pub\u00adlic inter\u00adest that they become of con\u00adcern to polit\u00adi\u00adcal author\u00adi\u00adties.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A two-parter about Chi\u00adna from a polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00aden\u00adtist at Johns Hop\u00adkins:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yaschamounk.substack.com\/p\/the-case-for-chinas-strength\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Case for China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Strength<\/a> (Yascha Mounk, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn the Unit\u00aded States, the Col\u00adlege Board has recent\u00adly announced that it will dras\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly reduce the length of read\u00ading pas\u00adsages; rather than giv\u00ading stu\u00addents who are tak\u00ading the SATs texts that are about 600 words in length, and ask\u00ading them a few ques\u00adtions about each, they will hence\u00adforth be giv\u00aden texts that are about 150 words in length, and only have to answer a sin\u00adgle ques\u00adtion about each. This means that Chi\u00adnese high school stu\u00addents tak\u00ading their Eng\u00adlish exam now like\u00adly face a more chal\u00adleng\u00ading test in a for\u00adeign lan\u00adguage than Amer\u00adi\u00adcans tak\u00ading the SAT do in their native tongue. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe me? Take a look at this page from last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exam.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yaschamounk.substack.com\/p\/the-case-for-chinas-weakness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Cracks in China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rise<\/a> (Yascha Mounk, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high mod\u00adernist eth\u00adic allowed it to build tens of thou\u00adsands of miles of high-speed rail\u00adway tracks in the course of a cou\u00adple of decades; but it is also the rea\u00adson why one year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favored indus\u00adtri\u00adal sec\u00adtors reli\u00adably seem to turn into next year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sources of waste and over\u00adpro\u00adduc\u00adtion. The country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extent of cen\u00adtral\u00adiza\u00adtion cre\u00adates a giant mar\u00adket increas\u00ading\u00adly unit\u00aded by shared norms and a com\u00admon lan\u00adguage; but the extent to which local cul\u00adtures and lan\u00adguages are being flat\u00adtened also con\u00adtributes to a grow\u00ading sense of alien\u00adation. None of this should be sur\u00adpris\u00ading. When coun\u00adtries are in their first spurt of growth, the advan\u00adtages of the mod\u00adel are often evi\u00addent, and its short\u00adcom\u00adings invis\u00adi\u00adble. It is when they mature, and the prob\u00adlems they need to solve become increas\u00ading\u00adly com\u00adplex, that the draw\u00adbacks come into view.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/the-many-jobs-of-a-religious-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Many Jobs of a Reli\u00adgious Leader<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe one real\u00adly sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant find\u00ading for me is that very few mem\u00adbers of the cler\u00adgy report that they went straight into min\u00adistry as a young per\u00adson. In fact, 66% of the folks in the sam\u00adple of reli\u00adgious lead\u00aders said that they had a career out\u00adside reli\u00adgion before they became a mem\u00adber of the cler\u00adgy. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if the aver\u00adage per\u00adson knows that \u2014 most pas\u00adtors you see didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go straight from Bible Col\u00adlege to Divin\u00adi\u00adty School to full-time min\u00adistry.\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><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qee-BZ6aLOU?si=Adfobg3LRlj4kll9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Under\u00adstand\u00ading Tay\u00adlor Swift Fans<\/a> (Josh John\u00adson, YouTube): two and a half min\u00adutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/mens-bible-study-derailed-by-mention-of-nephilim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Men\u2019s Bible Study Once Again Derailed By Men\u00adtion Of Nephilim<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/mans-self-esteem-yet-to-recover-from-time-7-years-ago-online-quiz-put-him-in-hufflepuff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Man\u2019s Self Esteem Yet To Recov\u00ader From Time 7 Years Ago Online Quiz Put Him In Huf\u00adflepuff<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/3132\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coast\u00adline Sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/3127\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Where Babies Come From<\/a> (xkcd)<\/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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153who under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I agree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I dis\u00adagree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until I can say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I under\u00adstand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Less Seri\u00adous Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen Why Do You Send This Email? In \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/08\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-518\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 518\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":[143,125,332,176,163,260,214],"class_list":["post-7777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-alcohol","tag-china","tag-international-students","tag-science","tag-sex","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-21r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777","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=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7779,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions\/7779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}