Bees!
A strange thing happened in a clinic in Taiwan a few months ago.
A 28-year-old patient, Ms. He, had been uprooting weeds around her relatives’ graves, as part of the annual Qingming Tomb-Sweeping Festival (which has been observed by the Chinese for over 2,500 years), when folks clean up loved one’s tombs and make ritual offerings of traditional foods and burn joss sticks. That was in early April this year.
Engaged in her act of devotion to her ancestors, Ms. He felt
Sumo!
Last month I had the blessed opportunity to visit ye olde country of Japan for three weeks!
To eat sushi, drink sake, visit students, and see sumo.
“What?” you ask. “See sumo?”
Yes, sumo, 相撲 (sumou, which literally means “to strike another”).
If you come to this country, you see baseball to experience a slice of America. If you go to Japan, it’s sumo (though the baseball craze is also quite prevalent in that land).
When I realized I’d be in Tokyo during
Conformed?
The MIT Technology Review recently published an article based on a study by Jonathan Touboul, associate professor of mathematics at Brandeis University: “The Hipster Effect: When Anti-Conformists All Look the Same.”
Observed one blogger ten years ago:
Hipsters avoid labels and being labeled. However, they all dress the same and act the same and conform in their non-conformity. Doesn’t the fact that there is a hipster look go against all hipster beliefs?”
But now what
Cash!
Jackee and Ben Belnap of Holladay, Utah, had worked hard to save $1,060. To repay Ben’s parents for the cost of season tickets to the University of Utah’s football games. The cash was carefully tucked into an envelope.
But over the weekend, this precious envelop disappeared. The Belnaps searched high and low, but to no avail.
Until they happened to empty their shredder’s waste bag. And guess what? There was the cash, all sliced and diced and atomized.
Genesis 42:1–43:34
God’s discipline and their selflessness and submission to God, lead agents of divine blessings to resolve past sin.
This section begins with the famine of 41:57 being assumed as the background. So the brothers (without Benjamin, Jacob’s favorite) are dispatched to Egypt for food.
When the brothers arrive in Egypt, one cannot but wonder how their path intersected with that of Joseph. That a tiny group of people, among the many hungry foreigners and natives in Egypt looking
Young?
Well, the results are in. Or so say researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (disclosure: your humble blogger’s alma mater for residency) and others from California, Texas, Denmark, and Australia in “Association of Accelerometer-Measured Light-Intensity Physical Activity with Brain Volume,” published recently in JAMA Network Open.
Here is the question they asked:
Is light-intensity physical activity associated with brain volume?”
The researchers studied
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.