Christianity: Bible scholar Ken Schenck on what the Bible says about wealth.
E. Stephen Burnett has written two "duh!" posts, about truths Christians need to be reminded of: our non-Christian neighbors don't get God's law, and they don't even understand God's grace in a rudimentary way.
Christianity Today on Pascal's wager. (The wager was about whether it makes sense to be a Christian believer, even if, say, Christian teaching about heaven is false.)
Computing: Gizmo's Freeware points to a site that will tell you how hard it would be to crack a password.
The Environment: (or something) Listverse discusses the 10 loneliest things in the world.
Food: Listverse reports on 10 strange soda (aka soft drink) flavors.
Health: National Public Radio reports on whether or not women need to have menstrual periods.
Politics: (and health) National Public Radio reports that a ten billion dollar program which was supposed to speed up getting treatment visits for veterans has actually made things worse. Oh, dear.
Science: Wired on why insect stings really hurt.
Listverse reports on 10 bizarre-sounding proposals by scientists, most of which were suggested as ways to alleviate Global Climate Change.
NPR reports on research designed to find out why we gossip.
Sports: FiveThirtyEight reports that women get concussions from participating in sports at higher rates than men do.
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