Insect!
Master painter Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853–1890) was prolific, creating about 2,100 artworks in a single decade, including over 800 oil paintings—most of these in the last two years of his life. The man committed suicide at 37, poor and mentally ill.
There is more than paint on his canvases though, or on at least one of them—Olive Orchard, held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, one of at least eighteen in a series of paintings
Bugs!
You always suspected it, but now it’s been proven to be true.
In a recent issue of the Journal for Food Research was an article by scientists from Clemson University with the ominous title: “Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake.”
I suspect your relationship with birthday cakes will now be altered forever.
If you were already paranoid about these things, you were avoiding birthday cakes with candles like the plague. Or maybe you scraped
Grades!
Who wouldn’t subscribe to a “stress reduction policy”?
Especially students under the strain of deadlines, quizzes, exams, and so on and so forth? Sounds like a great idea—a “stress reduction policy.”
Well, Dr. Richard Watson, teaching at the University of Georgia, Athens, since 1989, instituted exactly such a policy in his Fall 2017 classes. BTW, Watson is a “Regents Professor” at the university, an honor “bestowed by the Board of Regents on truly distinguished
Opportunity!
An interesting event took place a couple of years ago.
Harvard’s debate team had recently won a national title. The best. The unbeatables. The smartest. The most eloquent. The most persuasive.
Or so one would think.
But months after being unbeatable, they were beaten … by a debate team of prison inmates!
The showdown occurred at the Eastern Correctional Facility in New York, a maximum-security prison!
Prisoners are permitted to take classes taught by faculty from nearby
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.