Christianity: A Relevant writer discusses the importance of hope.
The family of Mollie Tibbetts, who was murdered, has expressed forgiveness for the probable murderer, according to Relevant.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, according to Relevant, plans to establish chapters on all US campuses with more than 1,000 students, over the next few years. They say that "about 53 percent of 2,500 schools currently don’t have any known campus ministry. ..."
Computing: (and Food) USA Today reports that IBM has patented drones that can fly around work spaces and dispense coffee.
Education: Grammarphobia tells us whether we should use "in Jesus's name," or "in Jesus' name."
Ethics: (or something) Gizmodo reports on an agency in Brazil, which is trying to protect isolated tribes. According to the report, there may be as many as 11 tribes in the rainforest which have never interacted with "modern" man.
Food: Gizmodo reports that the state legislature of Missouri has tried to define "meat." There are questions about cell/tissue cultured products, which aren't available in grocery stores, but which may be in the future.
Health: Scientific American reports that marijuana-derived substances are found in breast milk for 6 days after the last use.
History: National Public Radio reports that there is a drought in some of Europe. That has exposed "hunger stones" in some rivers -- stones with inscriptions telling of previous droughts. One such inscription is in 1417 AD. See also here, for marked stone exposure in a different part of Europe.
Politics: FiveThirtyEight looks at research on the effect of voter identification laws.
National Public Radio reports that the Department of Homeland Security presented a rosier picture of conditions in countries that actually exists there, in order to justify sending refugees back to them. Sigh.
Science: Analysis of data collected by an Indian spacecraft show that there is water on the moon.
USA Today reports that some farmers in Mexico have been growing corn that is associated with Nitrogen-fixing bacteria. (Usually, Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are associated with members of the pea family, such as soybeans. Plants that have such associations need less (or no) Nitrogen in fertilizer, and the plants are a better source of protein building blocks in people that eat them.)
Space.com reports that an asteroid seems to be about 95% metal, which is very unusual, and could be commercially important, if we can get there to mine it. Here's the Wikipedia article on that asteroid, Psyche.
Lifehacker on how to get a cat to like you (or at least act like it does).
Scientific American on how to tell if a comatose patient is conscious.
Scientific American also reports that we can have only up to about 150 real friends -- people we interact with regularly.
Thanks for looking!
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