Wastage!
Across the planet, over a billion tons of essential, nutritious, life-sustaining food goes to waste each year.
Eaten by pests, abandoned by farmers (who find it cheaper to do so, rather than sell it), trashed by restaurateurs, disposed by supermarkets (because “appearance quality standards” aren’t met), etc.
A third of all the food produced! Wasted between harvest and home, between farm and belly!
And this waste could double in a decade.
Or so saith the UN’s Food and
Debt!
The other day an amazing thing happened to some Canadians.
And if you were one of them, you were blessed. “Them” as in Canadian customers of Chase Bank having either of its two VISA cards.
Their debt was written off!
Yup, earlier this month, Chase announced that it would forgive all outstanding debt for those lucky folks north of the border who owed Chase Bank monies.
Apparently, Chase is winding down the operation of its two VISA cards in that country, and this was part
Cake?
Apparently, the first cheesecake was created on Samos, a Greek island on the Aegean Sea (another reason to visit the Greek islands). This was in 2000 BC, say archeologists, who suspect this delicious dessert was served during the first ancient Olympic Games in 776 BC. Yup, cheesecakes for energy. I second that!
Aegimius, a revered Greek physician of the 5th century BC, is said to have described the art of making cheesecakes: pound the cheese till it is soft, mix it (in
See!
This may have happened to you, as you looked through the viewfinder of a camera, or a pair of binoculars, or even through your reading glasses: things are OK at the center, but it’s a bit blurry at the edges.
It’s really not the fault of the lensmaker. Blame Greek mathematician Diocles (c. 240 BC–c. 180 BC) who postulated the problem—the spherical nature of lens surfaces and the difference in refraction between centers and edges of said lenses.
In a 1690 book, Treatise
Preaching @ Stonebriar Community Church
Quick note …
I am preaching at Stonebriar Community Church, north of Dallas, in Frisco, on August 11 and 18 (9:00 am and 10:45 am).
[For other speaking events, see here.]
Pacemaker!
Daniel Mascarenhas, a cardiologist in Easton, Pennsylvania, had a bright idea.
One of my patients had a pacemaker, and she died. I was a little upset. They put in a pacemaker, two days later she was dead, and they buried her with the pacemaker.”
Of course, being a cardiologist, he is probably used to sick patients, and dying ones. So that wasn’t what upset our good doc. It was what continued to live—that matchbox-sized, 50-gram device in his patient’s chest that
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.