Heart!
Researchers from Michigan State University have done something unique. As reported in “Generation of Heart Organoids Modeling Early Human Cardiac Development Under Defined Conditions,” appearing in bioRχiv, they describe the creation, for the first time, of a miniature human heart model in the laboratory. It has all the different heart cells, a functioning set of chambers, and blood vessels supplying its own needs!
With heart disease the No. 1 cause of death in the
Eavesdropping?
There you are, sitting down, calm and collected, minding your own business, watching TV, troubling no one, when out of nowhere a voice pipes up:
The distance to the moon is 238,900 miles.”
You jump out of your La-Z-Boy. Spill your iced tea on your jeans, on the TV remote, and on the carpet. Chaos ensues.
Who was that?
Apple’s Siri. Or Amazon’s Alexa. Or your favorite Google Home person, “OK Google.”
No one likes it when a stranger interrupts our activities. Particularly
Stripes?
In 1901, Rudyard Kipling , in How the Leopard Got His Spots, observed in jest:
[The animals] came to a great forest, ‘sclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows, and there they hid: and after another long time, what with standing half in the shade and half out of it, and what with the slippery-slidy shadows of the trees falling on them, the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew stripy.”
OK, but why? What advantage do those stripes
Supporting!
Did you know that supporting family increases your lifespan?
So said Tobias Vogt of the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and co-researchers, the other day, in “Intergenerational Resource Sharing and Mortality in a Global Perspective” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Giving money or resources to your children or to your parents can make you live longer. The paper demonstrated a linear relationship between amount and frequency of such
Hermeneutics and the Gift of Singleness
Dr. Hershael York is the Dean of the School of Theology and Louise Lester Professor of Christian Preaching at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY). This enterprising young man is also senior pastor of Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort, KY. And, to me, Hershael and his wife are good friends.
(Several years ago, I featured him on these pages in my “How I Preach” series.)
When I was at Southern Seminary in March of this year to deliver the Mullins
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.