Denial is not only a river in Egypt . . .
it ' s a river in the U.S. as well. I ' ve mentioned this before but it seems like a good time to pay it a visit, since the world in general has its collective head up its ass in many ways. (Vix.Australia.)Over geological time, the Mississippi River has continually changed its course. This has been known for a long time.Here ' s a map made in 1944 that shows some of the geological history that was already known back then. This happens because it flows across the flat midsection of the country and it meanders. On the outside of a meander the water moves faster and cuts into the bank. On the inside, it flows slowly and depos...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 15, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Human Freedom Waning in Many Countries
This article originally appeared on theFraser Forum on January 2, 2020. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Tanja Por čnik Source Type: blogs
9 Healthcare Companies Who Changed the 2010s
By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY
In order to celebrate the next decade (although the internet is confused whether its actually the end of the decade…), we’re taking a step back and listing our picks for the 9 most influential healthcare companies of the 2010s. If your company is left off, there’s always next decade… But honestly, we tried our best to compile a unique listing that spanned the gamut of redefining healthcare for a variety of good and bad reasons. Bon appétit!
1. Epic Systems Corporation
The center of the U.S. electronic medical record (EMR) universe resides in Verona, Wisconsin. Population of 13,166. The ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Start-Ups Andy Mychkovsky Healthcare Pizza Innovation Startups Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Crass materialism
As I have warned you, the remainder of Exodus is an unbearably tedious, repetitive and evidently pointless description of the tabernacle and its associated paraphernalia. You may ask:a) Why do the compilers of this text subject us to this? What is its theological importance, and why the multiple repetitions of seemingly meaningless details?b) How is it that a bunch of runaway slaves, who are camping out in the desert and subsisting on fungus, have such mass quantities of luxury goods?Thank you for asking! First, I remind you ofChristopher Beha ' s review of John Barton ' s History of the Bible. Beha writes:Clearly the Tora...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 22, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Which Ten Commandments?
What happens in Exodus 34 is very strange indeed. You may remember that Moses broke the tablets with the Ten Commandments because he was pissed off about the golden calf and all that. So God calls him back up the mountain to get a new set. Only -- they ' re completely different.34 TheLord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke.2 Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself there to me, on the top of the mountain.3 No one shall come up with you, and do...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 8, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The Divine Mooning
Exodus is, as we have seen, tedious and turgid. It ' s full of repetition, and also slightly different versions of similar constructs. Clearly it ' s an amalgamation of various source materials. But it is clear that the concept of God is still very limited compared with the modern version. He is not ubiquitous: he has a finite, physical body, in the shape of a human, and he exists in a specific location. He is definitely not universal; his only relationship is with the Hebrews. (The apparent flirtation with the Midianites was more or less forced because they adopted Moses and gave him a wife.) And he continues to mak...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 1, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Thanking a lot of people - all the Acknowledgement sections from all my papers
This article was written using the Authorea scientific writing platform.The authors would like to thank the Coronado Pop Warner Islanders for initial collection of the sample and participation in Project MERCCURI, as well as Kris Tracy who assisted in the etymology of the proposed species name.The 16S rRNA sequence analysis was performed under the MiSeq Com- petition MkIIm by New Zealand Genome Limited and with the assistance of Patrick Biggs (NZGL) for MiSeq sequence processing. We thank Alex- ander Forrest for the loan of the Brancker CTD. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. W...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 28, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonettte: A story you've probably heard of but don't really know
Okay, now we get back to some action for a while. (Don ' t get too excited. There ' s plenty of lawgiving left.) This is a story that most people are vaguely aware of but I doubt many know the details, which are weird and disturbing. Keep in mind a few things about the character of God at this point. He still have a physical body, severe psychopathology, and his great power is finite.32 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don ’t know...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 24, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Wasting food
Exodus 29 goes from the stage setting of 27 and costuming of 28 to the action of the drama: consecration of the tabernacle and establishment of the priesthood. These instructions are highly elaborate and seem largely arbitrary, but they do have the consistent quality of being very expensive. The temple is built of precious materials, the garments are set with gemstones, and now we have a ritual in which mass quantities of food are destroyed. For pastoral nomads, meeting God ' s demands must have been quite onerous. Judaism today no longer has this quality. Temples are mostly modest, as are priestly garments, sacrifice has ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 3, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Causes of Wealth Inequality
Chris EdwardsElizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to blast wealth inequality. But the twin leftists seem oblivious that wealth inequality may reflect starkly differing causes, as I discuss in anew Fox Business op-ed.The Warren-Sanders broad-brush denunciations are useless as a guide to policy because high wealth inequality may reflect either the growth benefits of capitalism or the negative effects of cronyism and crowding out.Capitalism here meanseconomic freedom, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Cronyism means corruption and narrow benefits to particular groups. Crowding out means the displacement of private sav...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Brain Training And Counting Bees: This Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
There’s not much evidence that brain training apps really improve our cognitive abilities – so why do so many people use them? Sabrina Weiss at Wired has the answers.
More colour-related research this week: people who live in grey, rainy countries far away from the equator are more likely to associate yellow with joy, reports Eva Frederick in Science. Most people in Finland, for instance, felt that yellow was related to the feeling of joy, while very few of those in countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia made that association.
Humans can...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
Life on Athens and Kythira
A trip to the Greek capital Athens and the island of Kythira yielded some good times, lovely views, lots of laughs with new(ish) friends, and sightings of quite a few species of bird, invertebrates and plantlife we’d not all “ticked” before. Here are a few snaps of the various species:
Scarce Swallowtail
Marginated Tortoise
Dark Bush Cricket, Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Striped Shieldbug, Graphosoma lineatum
Egyptian Grasshopper, Anacridium aegyptium with its striped eyes on mullein
Lesser Kestrel, Falco naumanni
Grayling on Sea Squill
Blue-winged-Grasshopper, Oedipoda caerulescens
European Skipper, Thymeli...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Us and Them
As I have said many times, the chapter divisions were added by medieval scribes and often don ' t seem to make a lot of sense. Exodus 23 is obviously three different segments which may well come from entirely different original sources. It starts out ascribing moral principles which, in contrast to much of what we have seen so far, are largely consistent with what we think of as virtuous today. Then it prescribes some religious practices which include some of God ' s odd obsessions but whatever. Then it turns really, really ugly. (I ' ve gone back to the New International Version for this one, it seems clearer in some plac...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 22, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Interventionists Evade Responsibility for Their Policy Disasters
Ted Galen CarpenterAs I point out in a newNational Interest Onlinearticle, a multi-sided struggle for power in Libya continues to fester more than eight years after the United States led an air war to help rebels oust longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi.Libya joins Iraq and Syria as a classic example of the failed U.S. regime-change strategy.Fighting between Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ’s so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) and the even more misnamed Government of National Accord (GNA) has intensified in and around the capital, Tripoli. The LNA boasted on September 11 that its forces had routed troops of the Sarraj milit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 20, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
