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God speaks to us through the Bible and the findings of science, and we should listen to both types of revelation.
The title is from Psalm 84:11.
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Showing posts with label eating contests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eating contests. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Sunspots 647
Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:
Christianity: Christianity Today has published another essay on reaction to the national anthem and the US flag. (The previous two Sunspots each referred to another such essay.)
A Relevant writer says that pursuing physical fitness can be a form of idolatry.
Another Relevant writer asks whether God really wants us to be happy.
Ed Stetzer, in Christianity Today, writes about hypocrisy, and a couple of prominent current hypocrites.
Computing: Wired reports on how to give robots a sense of touch.
Food: Listverse describes some bad things (including dying) that can happen to contestants in eating contest.
National Public Radio reports on trendy (and expensive) non-alcoholic beverages.
Health: Listverse discusses 10 good things that coffee does for you.
History: Listverse describes some amazing accomplishments of self-taught people.
(and Philosophy) The History Blog discusses the story of what happened to the body and head of philosopher Jeremy Bentham. (Here's the Wikipedia article on Bentham.)
Humor: (or something) Listverse describes 10 really strange government agencies, from more than one country.
Politics: FiveThirtyEight says that gun control is about as polarizing issue as there is in the present USA.
Science: (and politics) Scientific American says that Congress has an anti-scientific attitude, and suggests a fix.
NASA will let you send your name to Mars.
NPR reports that a new weed killer is helping some farmers, but harming others.
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