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Fresh!
Fruits are perishable. They turn soft. They turn brown. They become moldy. Yup, fruits are perishable. Especially bananas.
But no more, said Gilad Gershon, chief executive of Tropic, a Norwich (UK)-based biotech company, thanks to whom we might be getting bananas that stay fresh for several hours post-peeling. Declared Gershon triumphantly:
No more slimy, brown bananas!”
Enzymic browning is the main culprit behind those “slimy, brown bananas.” Fresh fruit and vegetables
Happiness!
The right to happiness is hardwired in us (and enshrined in the US constitution as an “unalienable right” of humans “endowed by their Creator”). It is an obsession stoked by promises from the gurus of bliss, the influencers of Instagram, and the campaigns of corporations, all seeking to empty our bank accounts as we go all out to be happy.
Not a good idea, declare researchers at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the University of Sydney Business School in
Sure?
Nope, we are not. But we trust in … AI.
Or so proclaimeth a study recently published in Scientific Reports: “Overtrust in AI Recommendations About Whether or Not to Kill: Evidence from Two Human-Robot Interaction Studies” by researchers from University of California, Merced, and from The Pennsylvania State University.
To create a sense of gravity around their simulated decisions, researchers first showed participants images of innocent civilians, including children,
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Devotional on Psalm 21
Here’s a devotional I did online for my church (Ninth and O Baptist Church: they call it a “Devotionable”) the other day. On Psalm 21.
2 Timothy 2:1–13
The servants of God, strengthened by God’s grace and entrusting the work of God to faithful people of God, face potential suffering, but seek only to please their faithful God and to further his cause—undistracted, upright, and industrious—thus gaining great eternal rewards.
This passage continues Paul’s appeal to Timothy that he be willing to suffer for God and for the gospel.
What Timothy has “heard” publicly from Paul, “in the presence of many witnesses”
2 Timothy 1:1–18
God’s call on his people involves a faithful, unashamed endurance of inevitable suffering as they undertake their divine commission, empowered graciously by God’s Spirit, confident of his seeing their work through, and anticipating rewards.
A single sentence makes up 1:3–5: Paul begins with his thanks to God in 1:3, but the reason for his gratitude is given only in 1:5. This sentence is bookended by the mention of ancestors: “forefathers” shows up in 1:3, and
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Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.