Stress in low-income families can affect children’s learning I am very excited about this. This is, as far as I know, the first study to...

Bookmarks: Man’s best friend? • Recent child abuse cases • Do food stamps subsidize McDonald’s? ———— ♦ ———— Dogs Do Love Their Owners:...

Bookmarks: The wonder drug • Phylicia Barnes update • The heckler’s veto again ———— ♦ ———— 2015-03-04. I’ve wanted to pose that...

Bookmarks: Corrupt science • Question for my followers and web-active people • I can’t believe they did this. ———— ♦ ———— Guess Who’s...

Bookmarks: How not to choose a sperm donor • Lies about immigration • Heather Cook update • Bizarre child abuse case • The reality of...

Last Wednesday I copied here a post from Messiah Truth. Here I copy what was the very next post on that same thread, from 2006-12-02,...

Bookmarks: Climate change is nothing new • Re-examining the housing bubble • Hilary Swank • “Super-hydrophobic” metals could mean...

Originally posted in July 2005 at Messiah Truth ; reblogged here 2021-03-11 : Religiosity can express any of various impulses, including...

Psychopaths • Mitt Romney bows out • Atheist chic

“Embracing what is,” a four-part series: • As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris • Belief: The unforgivable sin • Rationalism cannot save us. • Hell has an exit.

“Embracing what is,” a four-part series: • As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris • Belief: The unforgivable sin • Rationalism cannot save us. • Hell has an exit.

Bookmarks: Amulet • R.I.P. Andre Crouch • Schools should teach against date rape? • Individualization in the classroom • The One...

We begin with Galaxian ’s comment on “Jeanette:” Schizophrenia is not a karmic matter. It is an organic disease just as much as cancer...

———— ♦ ———— Disgusting smells provoke conservatism A logical calculus of vomit stink, gay marriage, and political leaning Research subjects exposed to the smell of vomit displayed a pronounced shift of attitudes toward the right. The Improbable Research article over-emphasizes the Biblical inerrancy question. Researchers surveyed participants on a wide range of liberal-vs.-conservative issues, and the two on which results were most outstanding were Biblical inerrancy and gay

I don’t hold with those who want to blame global warming wholly on American industry and American cars. The slashing-burning of hundreds...

Noise, in general, is chaotic or random sound. Danny personifies noise. He has a foul mouth, and talks constantly in a loud voice, usually about other people. His elbows are always sticking out, and he talks with these wild hand gestures like you see in a rap video. For some reason, he insists on sitting at my favorite table at meals. More than one of us are actually happy when he doesn’t come. In my years working at the dollar store, I found needless noise a great stresso

On Friday, July 25, I emerged from my devotional time exceptionally centered, and I stayed that way for hours. Nothing like this has happened to me before. It raised a number of new questions and resurrected many old ones. I am currently puzzling over the relationships among centeredness, happiness and presence. I have mentioned centeredness once before. As far as I know, neither Ambrose Worrall nor Emmet Fox ever discusses centeredness directly; it may be that, for them,

(Originally published 2013-07-04 at Trojan Horse Productions . Reblogged 2019-10-02 .) Baltimore is more likely than other places, to...

Today is my youngest brother’s 65th birthday, and a good occasion for me to pay tribute to him as an inspiration and role model. He’s six...

All my life, I’ve been fascinated with things that glow in the dark. Where does the light come from? This is now fundamental to my understanding of prayer, and of my vocation. The picture shows what I take for the latest advance in the world of fluorescent materials. Here are germanium nanoparticles in a colorless colloidal (gelatinous) suspension, being irradiated by ultraviolet light. By virtue merely of where they are and what they are, the invisible light that shines