Worms!
The other day something strange happened in Southern Norway.
It began raining earthworms—yes, you read that right: earthworms. Of the creepy, crawly, squirmy, slimy kind. Belonging to the Phylum Annelida.
Biology teacher Karstein Erstad was skiing in the mountains when he discovered thousands of earthworms on the surface of several feet of snow.
When I found them on the snow they seemed to be dead, but when I put them in my hand I found that they were alive.”
Live earthworms!
Life!
Nils. H., 38, is a nurse in Germany (name withheld under that nation’s privacy laws). Hopefully, the verb will be in the past tense: He was a nurse.
The man was arrested the other day and is facing charges in three murders and two attempted murders. He expressed regret for killing 30! And the state prosecutor suspects he could be involved in the deaths of more than 150! All of them his patients! He killed his patients.
He confessed to an Oldenburg regional court that he
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[Dennis is a scholar, and a thoughtful one at that. On matters relating to centering sermons on Christ, he comes from a venerable Reformed tradition. He has been teaching practical theology in Westminster on the West Coast and is a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church of America. We shared a podium at last year’s Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society and I felt his perspective on preaching related matters
Spied!
Spies are having a difficult time these days.
Those cloak-and-dagger days of yesteryear are gone, when one could produce a false passport, slap on a wig, wiggle a false mustache, and slip into a country with panache. No longer.
Said retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, ex-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency:
In the 21st century, you can’t do any of that because of biometrics.”
What with iris scans and facial recognition software, life is tough now for the old school
Vision!
There’s a new Bond movie on the horizon: Spectre. Maybe that’s why “Science for the Masses” announced a recent finding that sounded like it came right out of Q’s lab.
I know nothing about Q’s lab, Fleming’s fictional R&D division of the British Secret Service. Nor do I know anything about “Science for the Masses” that describes itself thus:
Science for the Masses is a research group [operating out of Tehachapi, California] composed of professionals
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.