Christianity: Relevant reports that a church has a standing offer to pay (at about $8000) for weddings of couples, in the church, who are living together without being married. About 60 couples have done this.
A pastor of a white congregation explains why ministering to African-Americans and whites at the same time is hard.
Computing: Gizmodo discusses some reasons for checking our smart phones a lot.
Education: Grammarphobia tells us that the meanings of "emerge" and "emergency" are related.
Health: If you're a woman, you probably won't be surprised. NPR reports on a study indicating that women do better at clerical tasks when the room temperature is not so cold.
Humor: (or something) A Gizmodo article explains how some magic tricks are done.
(or something) Relevant reports that the Ark Encounter is suing because of rain damage.
Politics: Catherine Rampell on how the Trump Administration has tinkered with government statistics in various ways.
NPR reports that a lot of so-called American soil is actually owned by foreign entities.
FiveThirtyEight discusses the laws that state governments are seeking to have adopted, in states where the legislature and the governor are both from the same party.
Michael Gerson is not happy with the Trump Administration's decision to slow down the replacement of Andrew Jackson's picture, on $20 bills, by that of Harriet Tubman, and says that Tubman, even after death, makes her enemies look foolish.
Science: There's a lot of water on Mars, according to Gizmodo.
A Christianity Today writer discusses the question of whether non-human animals appreciate beauty.
Gizmodo discusses attempts to control monkey populations in India, where the animals have been responsible for several human deaths.
Listverse describes 10 organisms that don't seem to have any limits on their lifespan.
The graphic used in these posts is from NASA, hence, I believe, it is public domain.
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