The Arts: Listverse reports on 10 non-European languages that have provided words which are common in English.
Christianity: Reaction to a poll of Israelis, from Christianity Today and Relevant. Israeli Christians (mostly Catholic and Orthodox) are much less likely than US Christians to believe that Israel should be controlled by Jews.
Relevant wonders when conservative Christians will start to take global climate change seriously. (Some already do, of course.)
Ken Schenck argues that sex should be kept within a marriage.
In BioLogos, a discussion on the meaning of death in the Bible, and whether there could have been death before the Fall.
Computing: Gizmo's Freeware points out that you can use wildcards in Google searches.
From the same source: A freeware replacement for the Windows 8 or 10 start menu.
Wired reports that changing passwords frequently doesn't really make you more secure. (Provided, of course, that the password you are continuing to use is hard enough for the bad guys to figure out.)
Humor (and Food): A four minute YouTube video of a Kit Kat candy bar being surgically implanted into a Three Musketeers candy bar.
Politics: A writer for Sojourners says that he is a one-issue voter -- he's looking for a candidate with integrity. He doesn't seem to have found one.
The Washington Post reports on proposed US Constitutional amendments, lots of them. (Like 11,000+)
Fivethirtyeight counted up the phrases most often used, in the Republican Presidential debates, by Cruz, Kasich, Rubio and Trump.
Science: The Christian Science Monitor reports that ravens may have at least a rudimentary theory of mind. (The article tells you what that is.)
Fivethirtyeight tells us why most of us are right-handed.
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