In How We Live Today , Joseph Bottum offers three images for how we live today, beginning with a bowling league. This is one of those essays the description of which gives away the effect, so just go read it. . . . . Continue Reading »
As Open Culture notes, the Italian web site Haltadefinizione has a unique way to view six masterpieces from the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Each painting can be viewed in super high resolution—close to 28 billion pixels, a resolution 3,000 times greater than your normal . . . . Continue Reading »
The London-based graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov calls this a ” Geography of Prejudice .” I call it an “Accurate Assessment of How We Really View Europe”: (click to enlarge image) Here are some other countries: As seen by France . . . . . . and Great Britain . . . . . . and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Book: Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture by Adam S. McHugh:10 — The Gist: Many churches—particularly evangelical churches—tend to be extroverted places where introverts are marginalized, causing some Christians to feel they are not being . . . . Continue Reading »
From Jonathan McIntosh : This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed using dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. Donald’s life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve discussed this before—purveyors of scientism trying to convince us that their subjective value judgments are objectively “scientific.” But science is a method for obtaining and applying knowledge—it is not a philosophy or value system. Sure, we can use . . . . Continue Reading »
Just in case any of you teachers out there need a definition of “the rule of law,” the New York Times today explained , in a long thumb-sucking piece on the Tea Party, that it is “[F.A.] Hayek’s term for the unwritten code that prohibits the government from interfering with the . . . . Continue Reading »
The US has given a long overdue apology: Apparently we funded scientists who intentionally infected people from Guatemala with sexually transmitted disease so they could study the disease and its potential treatments. From the story:From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors . . . . Continue Reading »
A handwritten sign on the pulpit of the Church of the Lord Jesus warns members of the consequences of picking up snakes and drinking strychnine: By the way, I know some Catholics think snake-handling is a something that happens in Protestant churches every Sunday. While some shocking things you may . . . . Continue Reading »
The (now-former) CNN personality Rick Sanchez will “be remembered as a uniter, bringing left and right together in shared amazement at his lunkheadedness.” Forget the politics for a minute. The line just has that kind of Web-perfect construction that keeps me reading online. . . . . Continue Reading »
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