Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:
Christianity: USA Today reports on what Southern Baptist leaders want done to stop their sexual abuse crisis.
Threads from Henry's Web has a solid post on how Christians should respond to the Pledge of Allegiance, and related matters.
Christianity Today on how parents should deal with their children's doubts.
Computing: Gizmodo reports that Facebook employees who are supposed to weed out conspiracy theories, violent posts, and the like, are underpaid, and that their jobs affect their mental health adversely. They apparently joke about committing suicide and engage in sexual activity on breaks, as ways of coping.
Education: NPR reports on the large discrepancy between funding of mostly white school districts vs. mostly non-white ones, and explains the reasons for this.
Environment: National Geographic reports that a mammalian species has gone extinct, because of climate change.
Food: A Relevant article says that leftover pizza may make a better breakfast, nutrition-wise, than some cereals. Hmmm.
(And politics) Gizmodo reports that a "soda tax" seems to have worked, in Berkeley, CA. That is, taxing carbonated and sweetened drinks did change people's behavior.
Health: Scientific American reports that listing all the side effects of a drug may actually make it more desirable to listeners, viewers or readers.
WalletHub has studied us, and ranks the most sinful to least sinful states. The methodology is given, too. Nevada is the most sinful. It was the highest state in Greed, 3rd highest in Jealousy, and 6th highest in Lust. Vermont was the least sinful state.
NPR reports that growing up with access to green areas contributes to a healthier life.
Gizmodo reports that the death rate from drug overdoses is considerably higher in the US than in other nations.
Politics: Surprise (or not)! The Trump administration is apparently going to appoint a climate-change denier (who is not trained in climate science) to chair a committee to study global climate change, according to Earther.
Catherine Rampell on President Tariff Man, er, Trump.
Science: NPR reports that an Italian lab is experimenting with a gene drive system that might stamp out African mosquitoes. For more on gene drives, see here.
Gizmodo reports that it is easy to fool people with a disguise.
Gizmodo also reports on the re-discovery of a giant bee, from Indonesia.
NPR reports on locusts, as in plagues of locusts. It turns out that they are common grasshoppers that change appearance and behavior, under stress.
The graphic used in these posts is from NASA, hence, I believe, it is public domain.
Thanks for looking!
2 comments:
Interestingly, Vermont is also the 50th (least) ranked state in terms of religiosity of its citizens. Only 63% of people label themselves as religious and only 57% say religious is even somewhat important in their life.
The most religious state is Louisana with 90% claiming religion is very or somewhat important and they come in as 6th most sinful on the chart you point out.
Yes, that's true. I'm not sure what to make of Vermont.
Thanks for the comment.
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