Wednesday Bible study: What's in a name?
Numbers 13 advances the plot, but in a strange way. I don ' t know why it was so important to list the names of all the explorers and their fathers. Only two of these characters take on any individual importance. And then there is the report of what they find. I ' ll discuss that when we get to it.13 TheLord said to Moses,2 “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”3 So at theLord’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.4 These are their names:from ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 26, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: What's this all about, anyway?
Numbers 6 is one of the more puzzling chapters in the Torah. It isn ' t clear what the point is of being a Nazirite (spelled Nazarite in the KJV) or why somebody would want to do it. Apparently there was considerable Talmudic debate about this but they never got to a consensus. By declaring oneself a Nazirite, a person assumes exactly three restrictions: don ' t cut the hair, don ' t consume any products of the plant genus Vitis (not just alcoholic wine) and don ' t get near a corpse. Other than that there are no affirmative responsibilities and you can do whatever else you want. This is apparently a state of special " con...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 2, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: This evidently seemed like a good idea at the time . . .
This chapter is actually vaguely familiar to most people, I think, but it does not have any application to contemporary Jewish or Christian life. In fact, there is no evidence that these rules were actually followed even in the Second Temple period. The seven year fallowing is highly impractical. The intent of the Jubilee in the context of Hebrew life in the 7th Century BC et seq has been discerned by some commentators, and I ' ll do my best to summarize my understanding of it. However, the likelihood that it would be strictly observed knowing what we do of human nature seems small.25 TheLord spoke to Moses on Mount S...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 5, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
California Cheese Trail
You know that question people sometimes like to ask, “If you were going to die tomorrow, what would your last meal be?” Pretty ominous question, come to think of it. But my answer is always, “A warm baguette, grapes, wine, and a variety of cheeses.” Dave often delights me by bringing home from the grocery store cheeses we haven’t tried before, gathered from the basket in the cheese area of end pieces and sample sizes.
We really ended up living in a great area of the United States. California has its own tourism sector, related to cheese: California Cheese Trail. I want to eventually go visit t...
Source: Organization Monkey - July 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs
California Cheese Trail
You know that question people sometimes like to ask, “If you were going to die tomorrow, what would your last meal be?” Pretty ominous question, come to think of it. But my answer is always, “A warm baguette, grapes, wine, and a variety of cheeses.” Dave often delights me by bringing home from the grocery store cheeses we haven’t tried before, gathered from the basket in the cheese area of end pieces and sample sizes.
We really ended up living in a great area of the United States. California has its own tourism sector, related to cheese: California Cheese Trail. I want to eventually go visit t...
Source: Organization Monkey - July 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Some good stuff!
And some weirdness. BTW I ' m going to start doing Wednesday Bible study as well or we ' ll never get through this. Anyway Leviticus 19, as I foretold, contains some rules for daily life which for the most part conform with our present ethical culture. There are however a few that seem arbitrary or weird, and at least one that is definitely not good. This is the New Revised Standard Version.19 TheLord spoke to Moses, saying:2 Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I theLord your God am holy.3 You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall ke...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Your Work Attitude
This is one of my favorite quotes from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (in the passage on work):
Work is love made visible.And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.
C...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Values Source Type: blogs
Keeping Kids Healthy in the Age of Coronavirus: Dr. Greene on The People s Pharmacy
Transcript
[00:00:00] Joe Graedon: I’m Joe Graedon.
[00:00:01] Terry Graedon: And I’m Terry Graedon. Welcome to this podcast of the People’s Pharmacy.
[00:00:06] Joe Graedon: You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at PeoplesPharmacy.com.
[00:00:14] How’s your family holding up during the coronavirus pandemic? Isolation can be especially challenging for children.
[00:00:22] This is the People’s Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graedon.
[00:00:33] Terry Graedon: Children appear less susceptible than older adults to serious complications of COVID-19...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 21, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog COVID COVID-19 Viral Infection Source Type: blogs
Keeping Kids Healthy in the Age of Coronavirus: Dr. Greene on The People ’ s Pharmacy
Transcript
[00:00:00] Joe Graedon: I’m Joe Graedon.
[00:00:01] Terry Graedon: And I’m Terry Graedon. Welcome to this podcast of the People’s Pharmacy.
[00:00:06] Joe Graedon: You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at PeoplesPharmacy.com.
[00:00:14] How’s your family holding up during the coronavirus pandemic? Isolation can be especially challenging for children.
[00:00:22] This is the People’s Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graedon.
[00:00:33] Terry Graedon: Children appear less susceptible than older adults to serious complications of COVID-19...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 21, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog COVID COVID-19 Viral Infection Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Podcast: Mom Driven, Doctor Aligned & HeyMama Join Forces
Transcript
[00:00:00] Agatha: Hi! It’s Agatha Luczo. Welcome to “Mom Driven, Dr. Aligned”. Dr. Alan Greene and I were just on with the HeyMama Community doing a Q&A about COVID-19. Dr. Greene gave us such amazing advice and tips about how to deal with immunity health and how to take care of ourselves during this time. And some advice I haven’t heard anywhere else. I’m excited to bring all of the conversation to our family and friends.
[00:00:36] Dr. Greene: Wonderful to get to be with the HeyMama Community. I’ve gotten a bunch of questions already ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 16, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized COVID COVID-19 Parenting Source Type: blogs
COVID: Supplements, the Immune System, and Preventative Care
In the midst of a viral pandemic, with orders to “shelter at home” in effect, parents may be wondering what else can be done to protect the health of their families. Unprecedented circumstances often lead to feelings of a loss of control, which can sometimes generate a sense of fear, and even sadness.
Minimizing unnecessary travel and condensing trips to the grocery store or pharmacy is a vital part of slowing the spread of illness, however, there are also ways to take care of yourself and your children that can improve the function of the innate immune system, lessen stress, and increase the chances of staying safe an...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 13, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Air Quality COVID COVID-19 Immunity Vitamins & Supplements Zinc Source Type: blogs
Writing From the Void
Normally when I want to write a new blog post, I take a few minutes to tune into an idea, and then it begins to flow into writing. Getting an idea involves listening with my inner senses, as if I’m scanning some electromagnetic field for signal matches. When I discover a match, I can lock onto it, and then it’s rather easy to let the idea flow through into words.
The idea comes through as energy that I perceive as oscillations in my thoughts, and it combines with memories and other knowledge as I write. So first I get an initial sense of the idea in my mind, but it’s really through the process of writing that I gr...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
Word comprehension in people with left temporal lobe damage
[This is a snippet from a book I'm (slowly) working on for MIT Press. The comprehension task we used here was adapted from Baker et al. 1981 and looked like this, where the auditory presented word to be comprehended was "bear" or on other trials "pear":]With the help of my collaborator and former student Corianne Rogalsky, I probed our chronic stroke dataset, identifying 24 cases of left unilateral temporal lobe damage. The image below shows a lesion overlap map with warmer colors indicating more overlap across patients. The average score on the bear-pear-moose-grapes test was 97.9% correct; 16 people had a ...
Source: Talking Brains - February 7, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
To Improve Patient Care, Think Both “Zebras” and Golf
By MICHAEL MILLENSON
Super Bowl Week ended with the San Francisco 49ers and 161 U.S. hospitals having something in common.
Both were publicly penalized, both lost money as a result and both passionately believed the process was unfair. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to decide whether their objections were sensible or sour grapes and, in the case of hospitals, the real-life consequences are not a game.
The penalty that pained the 49ers occurred shortly before halftime of Super Bowl LIV, when offensive pass interference was called on tight end George Kittle. The call negated a big gain that might have enab...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare CMS hospital acquired conditions (HACs) Michael Millenson Risk adjustment Source Type: blogs
