Mercy!
All kinds of things are automated in society, so why not judges and juries, asked a journalist recently in Raconteur.
Technology doesn’t hold grudges nor does it lack the information to make a decision. It can help dissect the facts in a more efficient, objective and informed fashion, and save time when determining a judgment or even sentence if the judge’s role was to be augmented. In fact, a legal robot could be crammed with a far broader range of facts and figures
Unaged!
Last week, RaMbLeS was on aging.
This week, I’m going to let you in on the secret of preventing said process.
Nope, not with Botox, liposuction, fillers, or any such thing.
Here’s the real scoop. It is … [wait for it] … a quieter brain without too much activity in its nerves.
So saith a scientifically dense paper in Nature titled “Regulation of Lifespan by Neural Excitation and REST,” by a bunch of assorted biologists, mostly from Harvard Medical School.
We all
Aged!
A few weeks ago, a woman got tired of aging. Like many of us.
Time flies. Things change. People age. And the clock ticks on, inexorably, irreversibly, incessantly. We might be unconscious of the fact, unmindful and unaware, but life is running out for each of us.
The old brain with its weary synapses isn’t pushing those neurotransmitters fast enough. Cholesterol rises. Waistlines expand. Joints creak. Eyes squint. Etc.
We are getting old. And so thought that lady in Sugarland,
Flesh
Sagittarius A* (aka Sgr A*; pronounced “Sagittarius-A-Star”) has been the focal point for astronomers for many decades. That entity is a huge black hole (“supermassive black hole”) somewhere in the center of our own galaxy, close the Sagittarius constellation, 26,000 light years away.
[Black holes are areas that have such a strong gravitational force that nothing escapes from them, not particle, not even light.]
Of late, Sgr A* has been consuming far more than usual
New Book: A Manual for Preaching!
Folks, my latest opus on preaching is out: A Manual for Preaching: The Journey from Text to Sermon (Baker, 2019).
This is intended to be a companion volume to A Vision for Preaching: Understanding the Heart of Pastoral Ministry (Baker, 2015). The latter was a big-picture view of preaching; the former, current work, explains the nitty-gritty of crafting a sermon.
And since my “vision for preaching” is fairly broad, you don’t have to be a senior pastor somewhere,
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.