Frozen!
After all this is winter. So you can expect cold-weather warnings. Freeze warnings were in effect from Louisiana to the Carolinas, and even in Florida, where temperatures are averaging 10–15 degrees below normal. But the forecast issued by the National Weather Service in Miami last week was a new one. It was about low temps alright, but it pertained to—get this—iguanas!
Tweeted NWS Miami (@NWSMiami):
This isn’t something we usually forecast, but don’t be surprised
Art?
The other day, one of the most talked-about works of art at the 2019 Art Basel was—get this!—a banana duct-taped to the wall!
The fruit and tape in question were created by Maurizio Cattelan (of the $6-million-2017-golden-toilet fame). Called “The Comedian.” It sold for $120,000. Cattelan made another copy. That sold for $120,000, too. A third was made, and was expected to go for $150,000. More about that in a minute.
Emmanuel Perrotin—the founder of Perrotin,
Lottery?
Gloria C. MacKenzie, an 84-year-old Florida widow, won the $590 million Powerball lottery in 2013. The odds of her winning it was 1 in 175 million.
Robert Williams, a professor of health sciences at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, who studies lotteries, noted:
People just aren’t able to grasp 1 in 175 million. It’s just beyond our experience—we have nothing in our evolutionary history that prepares us or primes us, no intellectual architecture, to try and
Imitation!
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) wrote some remarkable stuff, among them nine symphonies.
Apparently he had also begun working on the Tenth Symphony alongside his magnificent Ninth, with its epochal “Ode to Joy.” But quickly gave up on the former, leaving only a few notes and drafts, scribbling a few notes in notebook before he died, fragmentary sketches for the first movement of his Tenth.
Well, guess what?
Musicologists and computer programmers are working to complete
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.