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Thursday, June 05, 2014

Links to Your World, Thursday June 5

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D-Day anniversary is tomorrow. This is a cool series of interactive photos showing you several D-Day scenes then and now.

 

Hurricanes with female names don’t get taken as seriously—and end up taking more lives.

 

After the Bible, what is a Christian’s most important book? You will be surprised; I hope you will agree.

 

Regarding the woman the Sudanese government has condemned to die for converting to Christianity, Russell Moore writes “Mariam is a true daughter of Sarah, who does not ‘fear anything that is frightening’” (1 Pet. 3:7).

 

In a recent study, participants were asked to guess the age of women in photos. While the participants examined the photos, certain odors were piped into the room. “The way the participants visually perceived the women was strongly influenced by what odor they were smelling. When they smelled something pleasant, they rated the older looking faces as younger, and the younger faces as even younger. That was not the case with bad smells. Older and younger faces were perceived as similar in age.” (Time)

 

Why no one gets your sarcastic emails.

 

Sermon Illustration Alert: Google Gets 10,000 Requests A Day To Be ‘Forgotten’ in Europe

 

Twenty-five years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, few Chinese know anything about it, or attribute the reports to CIA propaganda.

 

“Law enforcement officers in Colorado and neighboring states, emergency room doctors and legalization opponents increasingly are highlighting a series of recent problems as cautionary lessons for other states flirting with loosening marijuana laws.”  NYT

 

What Myths Do We Most Commonly Realize Are False in Our 20s?

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