Christianity: A fine review of a book I decided not to get, among the Amazon user-contributed book reviews: "Basically, my reaction to this book is this. Reading a book about the Bible is a lot like watching someone else play a video game. You can learn some things but you can't have the experience until you do it yourself."
"A . . . scholarship focus can set up a dangerous mindset that knowledge is the point of the Bible. When actually it is to get out and share the saving grace of Jesus with the world."
Science: Discovery reports that spider webs may attract prey because the webs, and the prey, are electrically charged.
Three National Public Radio reports on gut (that's a perfectly good biology word, meaning the apparatus between the mouth and the anus, by the way) bacteria and their importance:
Gut bacterial populations seem to be quite stable over long periods of time, and we may get much of that population from our mothers or other relatives.
Gut bacteria may produce a substance, after helping us digest meat, that increases risks for heart attacks.
Gut bacteria populations may cause some forms of malnutrition.
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2 comments:
Thanks for sharing this week's sunspots ...
From the article …
"Because all the women in the study were healthy, the researchers did not examine what happens to our microbes when we do things like take antibiotics or probiotics."
I think that plays a HUGE role and should definitely have been in the study.
I also wonder what the effects of those that have had holistic colon cleanse treatments.
Yes, it would have been better if these aspects could have been studied, and it's too bad that they weren't.
Thanks for your comment.
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