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The critters in your bowels could make you psycho saith researchers from the University of Porto, Portugal, and the University of Oxford, U.K., in “Gut and Oral Microbiota Composition Is Associated with Psychopathic Personality,” set for publication—but not yet peer-reviewed—in Translational Psychiatry.
It is bound to be controversial, but the authors claim to have discovered a link between the specific balance of microflora in the gut and psychopathic behavior—a
Lotto!
Seconds can cost you money. In this case, seven seconds cost Joel Ifergan $13.5 million Canadian (about $9.5 million US).
Scooping millions on the lottery would be a life-changing event for most people. Ifergan, likewise, expected that to be the case. But, alas, the guy never saw a penny of the payout.
One night several years ago, he went into a convenience store in Quebec, Canada, shortly before the 9:00 pm deadline, to buy tickets that evening’s Lotto Super 7 draw. The
Odor!
You can, apparently, odorize your way into resistance training.
Or so say scientists from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in “Chocolate Odor Enhances Resistance Exercise Performance Through Appetite Suppression in the Fasted State,” published recently in Frontiers in Physiology.
Smelling chocolate between sets at the gym pushed men to complete far more repetitions than they managed with no scent at all, they found.
Olfactory (pertaining to smell) stimuli may
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Another Interview
Here is an interview that aired on Right Theology Forum in India a few months ago ….
Psalm 6:1–10
Stricken with frailty and debility, terrified by impending mortality, dissolved by grief, and assailed by opportunists and opponents, the child of God makes bold to beseech God in persistent prayer for the gracious intervention of his lovingkindness, with the confidence that God will hear and take action.
In Psalm 6, there is evidence of divine wrath (“anger,” “rebuke, “fury,” and “chasten” in 6:1), of physical infirmity (“frail,” “heal me,” and “bones”
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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. 