Better than watching paint dry: "For more than 50 years, Professor John Mainstone has stared at a shiny dark blob dangling from a glass funnel hoping to see it drip....The experiment that has consumed Mr. Mainstone has captivated hundreds of thousands of spectators across the globe who tune into an online webcam trained on the pitch day and night."
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"Your illness is not your identity, your chemistry is not your character,” [Rick Warren] told people struggling with mental illness. To their families, he said, “We are here for you, and we are in this together.” There is hope for the future: “God wants to take your greatest loss and turn it into your greatest life message.” ... Then, as the service closed, Rick joined the worship team in singing a favorite evangelical hymn, “Blessed be Your Name.” He lifted his Bible high above his head and declared boldly to the God he serves: “You give and take away, my heart will choose to say, Lord blessed be your name.” From a Time magazine article on Rick Warren's return to the pulpit since his son's suicide. He pledged to remove the stigma associated with mental illness in the church.
This man was labeled a dwarf at 21 and then a giant at 32, growing in adulthood from just under 4 feet 10 inches tall to 7 feet 2 inches tall.
Among the just-so stories created by the evolution metanarrative, we finally have an explanation for our incurable human restlessness. Nature has to keep us fit, so nature has to keep us moving, so nature has to keep us dissatisfied with where we're at. Augustine had a better explanation.
Owen Strachan in The Atlantic: "How strange was it...that leading news sources referred to the fetus of William and Kate as the “royal baby.” There were no pre-birth headlines from serious journalistic sources like “Royal Clump of Cells Eagerly Anticipated” or “Imperial Seed Soon to Sprout.” None of the web’s traffic-hoarding empires ran “Subhuman Royal Fetus Soon to Become Human!” No, over and over again, one after another, from the top of the media food chain to the bottom, Kate’s “fetus” was called, simply and pre-committedly, a baby....The media was right; gloriously, happily right." Read the rest.
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