Saturday, October 31, 2015

Leviticus 23:22

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When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harve...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

School conflicts

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What happens when the country school schedules conflict with the grade school schedules? The country devils have been coming out, and clin...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe

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The title turns out to have several meanings, one rather ironic. In the prologue the priest explains to the penitent that he also was a mur...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

School breaking the rules?

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The principal of Ricks Institute (Dr Olu Menjay) complained about comments by the Minister of Education who claimed that Ricks wasn't a...

Sleep differences

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Black and white sleep patterns differ? "Whites in the study slept an average of 6.85 hours; blacks slept an average of 6.05 hours....
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Star Destroyer

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It is about 290 million light-years away , so we don't get a very detailed look at the proceedings, but it looks like a black hole just ...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Everything old is new again

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I remember when the late Prof. Cline wanted to loft liquid argon time projection chambers in balloons to look for quark nuggets , a hypothe...

Honesty and faithfulness

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From Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by Kenneth E. Baily p143: First, biblical languages (and modern Arabic) have no word for honesty . H...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Sci Fi Aliens

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In the previous post I linked to a story The Man too Lazy to Fail from Heinlein's Time Enough For Love . I think it was in reading that...
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Hunter/gatherer sleep

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Research unveiled on Thursday showed that people in isolated and technologically primitive African and South American cultures get no more s...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

In case you were wondering how these things worked

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Poro Devil Wanted for Alleged Torture, Murder. It all began when the late Samuel Mansuo’s son, Nentor Mansuo, got into a dispute with one o...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Different reactions

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When I was at SIU we had Iranian student groups. I think I counted 5, each of which denounced all the rest as agents of SAVAK. I suspect t...
Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Why would they think of that?

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Mealworms can eat styrofoam? (As always, verify that this is true and repeatable.) What comes immediately to mind is an elementary school...
Sunday, October 04, 2015

Come quickly, Lord

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Your will is definitely not being done on earth as in heaven. But... If Jesus endured the horrors of our world for us, I suppose we can e...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

Spotting spies

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Does anybody know if this is true? The article claims that CIA spies were readily identified because of the different ways agents and norm...
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Friday, October 02, 2015

Word meanings

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AVI reminds us that we have no right to happiness What the word "happiness" means isn't fixed, of course. One writer whose ...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Cancer?

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Does cancer have a double whammy? They claim that the "wasting" aspect of cancer is or can be independent of effects due to tumo...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Negative interest

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Sweden has been using negative interest rates . Cut rates too deeply, and savers would end up facing negative returns. In that case, this c...
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Friday, September 25, 2015

Bee careful reporting

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An alderman proposed a revision to city ordinances to allow beekeeping. I agreed to speak in favor, and went to the planning committee meet...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Slander

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In Romans 1:29-32 the list of sins deserving death includes slander. It might seem disproportionate at first, but go read these stories ab...
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