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In Australia, babies that survive abortion are being drowned in buckets of formaldehyde or abandoned on shelves until they die: Babies that are surviving late-term abortions at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital might be being left on shelves to die, according to an Anglican minister. . . . . Continue Reading »

Does how much you care about having brand-name items depend on how religious you are ? The brand name logo on a laptop or a shirt pocket may do the same thing for some people that a pendant of a crucifix or Star of David does for others. For people who aren’t deeply religious, visible markers . . . . Continue Reading »

(Yeah, I know: This clip has been floating around the web for a long time. But some people haven’t seen it yet, so it’s new to them .) (Via: Creedal Christian ) . . . . Continue Reading »

Parodies of television commercials tend to be terrible unless (a) they are promoting a library or (b) they feature a Muppet teaching about a preposition. . . . . Continue Reading »

1. How Pascal’s Triangle Explains Poetry Poetry . . . is mathematics. It is close to a particular branch of the subject known as combinatorics, the study of permutations – of how one can arrange particular groups of objects, numbers or letters according to stated laws. As early as 200 . . . . Continue Reading »

After stumbling upon a roast of David Hasselhoff on VH1, David Mills laments the decline of playground-level humor : And as I watched, with lurid fascination, I realized that the monologue reminded me of junior high, with one difference: in junior high, people were expected to be funny when they . . . . Continue Reading »

[Note: In lieu of this week’s pop culture list, I’ve decided to run a special edition of Thirty Three Things that includes all Christian items. The regular 33T feature will still be posted this afternoon.] 1. You were loved into existence. °°°°°° 2. From 613 to 1 . . . . Continue Reading »

According to the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior—and contra the impression presented by Hollywood—the vast majority of teenagers are not having sex : Many surveys of adolescent sexual behavior create an impression that adolescents are becoming sexually active at younger . . . . Continue Reading »

Is religious poetry making a comeback? Peggy Rosenthal at Image thinks so: When I was in college and grad school in literature in the 1960s, God was never mentioned in my courses—except as a metaphor. The poetry even of overtly religious writers like Herbert and Donne was read for its witty . . . . Continue Reading »

You’ve likely heard the field of economics referred to as “the dismal science.” And if you took a course in macroeconomics you probably recognize that the appellation was given by the Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle. But what few people realize is that Carlyle coined the term in an 1849 magazine article … Continue Reading »