{"id":7929,"date":"2026-03-20T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:11:15","slug":"tgfi-volume-547-canine-cancer-cure-and-paying-college-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2026\/03\/20\/tgfi-volume-547-canine-cancer-cure-and-paying-college-athletes","title":{"rendered":"TGFI, Volume 547: canine cancer cure and paying college athletes"},"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<\/p><p>You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues like\u00adly to be of inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians in col\u00adlege. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so 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.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/technology\/tech-boss-uses-ai-and-chatgpt-to-create-cancer-vaccine-for-his-dying-dog\/news-story\/292a21bcbe93efa17810bfcfcdfadbf7\">Tech boss uses AI and Chat\u00adG\u00adPT to cre\u00adate can\u00adcer vac\u00adcine for his dying dog<\/a> (Natasha Bita, The Aus\u00adtralian): \u201cHeart\u00adbro\u00adken when his fur-baby was diag\u00adnosed with a dead\u00adly mast cell can\u00adcer in 2024, Mr Conyn\u00adg\u00adham threw thou\u00adsands of dol\u00adlars at vet\u00aderi\u00adnary chemother\u00ada\u00adpy and surgery, which slowed but failed to shrink the tumours. Now, after treat\u00adment with a cus\u00adtom mRNA can\u00adcer vac\u00adcine over the Christ\u00admas break, the ten\u00adnis ball-sized tumour on Rosie\u2019s hock has shrunk in half, in a recov\u00adery that has astound\u00aded researchers at the cut\u00adting-edge of human can\u00adcer treat\u00adments.\u2026 [A sci\u00aden\u00adtist said,] \u2018Usu\u00adal\u00adly we don\u2019t sup\u00adport direct-to-con\u00adsumer type DNA sequenc\u00ading because while gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading data for genomics is rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly easy for us, inter\u00adro\u00adgat\u00ading that data is real\u00adly hard and chal\u00adleng\u00ading,\u2019 he said. But Paul said, \u2018No wor\u00adries, I\u2019m a data ana\u00adlyst and I\u2019ll fig\u00adure this out with the help of Chat\u00adG\u00adPT\u2019.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Note that he did not cure the can\u00adcer, just treat\u00aded it. Stun\u00adning nonethe\u00adless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/danger-ai-misformation\/\">The Dan\u00adger of AI Isn\u2019t Mis\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion. It\u2019s Mis-For\u00adma\u00adtion.<\/a> (Jonathan Sams, The Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cIn each of these exam\u00adples, it\u2019s pos\u00adsi\u00adble AI could churn out a bib\u00adli\u00adcal\u00adly accu\u00adrate answer. But the dan\u00adger isn\u2019t pure\u00adly a mat\u00adter of mis\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion; it\u2019s a mat\u00adter of for\u00adma\u00adtion. The real issue is what habit\u00adu\u00adal AI use does to us. It turns into mus\u00adcle mem\u00ado\u00adry that, over time, will reshape basic Chris\u00adt\u00adian habits like what we pay atten\u00adtion to, what we expect, and where we look for coun\u00adsel.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/paying-college-athletes-has-created\">Pay\u00ading Col\u00adlege Ath\u00adletes Has Cre\u00adat\u00aded a Mess. It Was Still the Right Thing to Do.<\/a> (Joe Nocera, The Free Press): \u201cWhat is a prob\u00adlem, I acknowl\u00adedge, is the trans\u00adfer por\u00adtal. In the bad old days, ath\u00adletes couldn\u2019t trans\u00adfer with\u00adout los\u00ading a year of eligibility\u2014even if the coach who had recruit\u00aded them left for green\u00ader pas\u00adtures. But when play\u00aders switch two or three times in the course of their col\u00adlege career, that cre\u00adates a whole oth\u00ader set of prob\u00adlems. Small\u00ader schools, in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, have a dif\u00adfi\u00adcult time hold\u00ading on to their best play\u00aders because the major sports schools pick them off with NIL offers. (Pre\u00addic\u00adtion: There will be few\u00ader upsets in this year\u2019s tour\u00adna\u00adment than there used to be.) Col\u00adlege ath\u00adletes have become free agents rather than col\u00adlege stu\u00addents. One astound\u00ading sta\u00adtis\u00adtic: In the South\u00adeast\u00adern Con\u00adfer\u00adence, only one bas\u00adket\u00adball play\u00ader spent four years at the same school. One!\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inparticular.substack.com\/p\/sex-is-not-a-symbol\">Sex is not a sym\u00adbol<\/a> (Kris\u00adten Sanders, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cBut there are a few threads in some of the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions swirling about fer\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty that I think we might pull on. <em>For one, mar\u00adriage, and not sex, is the metaphor for union between God and humans.<\/em> This mat\u00adters quite a bit! .\u2026What I object to, most strong\u00adly, is a view of God and his work\u00adings in the world that relies on a \u2018hid\u00adden\u2019 order or struc\u00adture that it is our job to dis\u00adcov\u00ader. God is present in the world with\u00adout hid\u00ading behind every tree or bush. In say\u00ading that sex is a gift, we are say\u00ading all that we need to say about it. Mak\u00ading it sacred, for me, actu\u00adal\u00adly impedes the kind of divi\u00adsions being made in Leviti\u00adcus between the holy and the pro\u00adfane. The pro\u00adfane is sim\u00adply that which is good, but not good for use in the order of revealed knowl\u00adedge of God. It is good for its own sake. For it, we can return thanks, joy\u00adful\u00adly, rel\u00adish\u00ading its gifts- of com\u00admu\u00adnion and hos\u00adpi\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty, of sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty and its nour\u00adish\u00adments, of chil\u00addren if they are grant\u00aded to us. None of these need to be made holy to be good. That is how we receive the world as gift.\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/life\/481598\/reddit-laundry-kismai-lipase-detergent-list-spa-day\">The mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous Red\u00addi\u00adtor who\u2019s chang\u00ading the way we do laun\u00addry<\/a> (Alex Abad-San\u00adtos, Vox): \u201cHe has sin\u00adgle\u00adhand\u00aded\u00adly changed the way peo\u00adple do laun\u00addry. He is the rea\u00adson the word \u2018lipase\u2019 has become a top\u00adic of con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion across elder mil\u00adlen\u00adni\u00adal group chats. He can move the mar\u00adket. His adher\u00adents clam\u00ador for their face\u00adless cham\u00adpi\u00adon to give them advice. They praise him for a 12-hour process called \u2018spa day\u2019 and post their dis\u00adgust\u00ading but sat\u00adis\u00adfy\u00ading results for the world to see.\u2026 Most of the world uses pow\u00addered laun\u00addry deter\u00adgent, which allows for more enzyme flex\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty; Amer\u00adi\u00adcans gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly pre\u00adfer liq\u00aduid, which doesn\u2019t always con\u00adtain these pre\u00adcious enzymes.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/worldviewbulletin.substack.com\/p\/scripture-creation-and-accommodation\">Scrip\u00adture, Cre\u00adation, and Accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion<\/a> (Michael Hor\u00adton, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c[I]n 1896 Andrew Dick\u00adson White intro\u00adduced the fic\u00adtion that, through its pro\u00admo\u00adtion by Bertrand Rus\u00adsell and many oth\u00ader promi\u00adnent thinkers, has proved influ\u00aden\u00adtial. White says, \u2018Calvin took the lead (against Coper\u00adni\u00adcan\u00adism) in his Com\u00admen\u00adtary on Gen\u00ade\u00adsis, by con\u00addemn\u00ading all who assert\u00aded that the earth is not at the cen\u00adtre of the uni\u00adverse. He clinched the mat\u00adter by the usu\u00adal ref\u00ader\u00adence to the first verse of the nine\u00adty-third psalm, and asked, \u2018Who will ven\u00adture to place the author\u00adi\u00adty of Coper\u00adni\u00adcus above that of the Holy Spir\u00adit?\u2019\u2019 How\u00adev\u00ader, Calvin nev\u00ader men\u00adtions Coper\u00adni\u00adcus, here or any\u00adwhere else, and he does not con\u00addemn helio\u00adcen\u00adtrists. As [Mar\u00adgaret] Osler notes, \u2018Few astronomers adopt\u00aded Coper\u00adni\u00adcan astron\u00ado\u00admy dur\u00ading the first fifty years fol\u00adlow\u00ading the pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion of <em>De rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adibus<\/em>.\u2019 This includ\u00aded Bacon, of course, so it would not be sur\u00adpris\u00ading if Calvin was not even aware of Coper\u00adni\u00adcus. More egre\u00adgious is White\u2019s spu\u00adri\u00adous quo\u00adta\u00adtion, put into cir\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion by F. W. Far\u00adrar a decade ear\u00adli\u00ader and, through White, passed on by Bertrand Rus\u00adsell and many oth\u00aders.  Instead, what Calvin says is that scrip\u00adture is accom\u00admo\u00addat\u00aded dis\u00adcourse. Regard\u00ading Gen\u00ade\u00adsis 1 he cau\u00adtioned, \u2018The Holy Spir\u00adit had no inten\u00adtion to teach astron\u00ado\u00admy.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I con\u00adsid\u00ader myself well-informed in this area, and Hor\u00adton has got some good info here I don\u2019t recall run\u00adning across before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/american-diner-gothic\">Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Din\u00ader Goth\u00adic<\/a> (Robert Mar\u00adi\u00adani, The New Atlantis): \u201cYou\u2019re in a small town in Wis\u00adcon\u00adsin, the heart of Nor\u00admal Amer\u00adi\u00adca. The trans\u00adgen\u00adder assis\u00adtant man\u00adag\u00ader at CVS has a sep\u00adtum pierc\u00ading, a wolf cut, and a nametag that reads \u2018Finn.\u2019 A block away, the 4channer con\u00adstruc\u00adtion work\u00ader in the Sam Hyde shoot\u00ader shirt lis\u00adtens to Bladee and plots his impend\u00ading viral\u00adi\u00adty. At Tar\u00adget, the ani\u00adme sec\u00adtion has metas\u00adta\u00adsized from one shelf to an entire aisle. These aren\u2019t ran\u00addom weirdos and they aren\u2019t teenagers in a phase. Walk through any office park and you\u2019ll find the same aes\u00adthet\u00adic bleed\u00ading through the cubi\u00adcles: ani\u00adme stick\u00aders on lap\u00adtops, Dis\u00adcord run\u00adning on sec\u00adond mon\u00adi\u00adtors. They\u2019re a new Amer\u00adi\u00adcan type, young but trans-gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtional, as dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive as the orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion man or the val\u00adley girl once were. I call them din\u00ader\u00adgoths: what you get when eco\u00adnom\u00adic mobil\u00adi\u00adty dies, sub\u00adurbs become psy\u00adchic deserts, and Dis\u00adcord becomes more real than your cul-de-sac.\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:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/protestant-quarterback-throws-beautiful-hail-christ-alone-pass\">Protes\u00adtant Quar\u00adter\u00adback Throws Beau\u00adti\u00adful Hail Christ Alone Pass<\/a> \u2014 (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/fear-not-says-chuck-norris-to-calm-trembling-angels\">\u2018Fear Not!\u2019 Says Chuck Nor\u00adris To Calm Trem\u00adbling Angels<\/a> \u2014 (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/t_afif\/full\/JoKYwXO\">Mario writ\u00adten in pure CSS<\/a> \u2014 . You can view the source. I would not have guessed this was pos\u00adsi\u00adble.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s6uGsQzwzkU\">Base\u00adball catch of the cen\u00adtu\u00adry<\/a> (Robert Antho\u00adny Cruz, YouTube) \u2014 (Robert Antho\u00adny Cruz, YouTube): four\u00adteen sec\u00adonds<\/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>You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues like\u00adly to be of inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians in col\u00adlege. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so if you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2026\/03\/20\/tgfi-volume-547-canine-cancer-cure-and-paying-college-athletes\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cTGFI, Vol\u00adume 547: canine can\u00adcer cure and pay\u00ading col\u00adlege ath\u00adletes\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":[124,219,335,122,176,202,247],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cancer","tag-college","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-23T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","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=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7934,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions\/7934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}