Puppy?
Dog faces have apparently evolved over tens of thousands of years. Well, what’s so strange about that, you ask?
Here’s the answer from scientists from the University of Portsmouth, UK, and from Howard University, NC State, and Duquesne in the US. In “Evolution of Facial Muscle Anatomy in Dogs,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dogs were shaped during the course of domestication both in their behavior and in their anatomical features.
Headache?
If you thought you were the only one getting more headaches these days, you’d be mistaken. No, you’re not alone. Apparently more than half the entire global population is suffering from some form of headache disorder.
So proclaimeth scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, and Imperial College London, London, in “The Global Prevalence of Headache: An Update, with Analysis of the Influences of Methodological Factors on
Living!
The Arctic rotifer is a strange creature. It is pretty small—less than a millimeter or 0.0393701 inches! So, basically, it is microscopic. Yet, its body is complex: it is multicellular, and it has a gut and a brain. This critter, belongs to a group of rotifers known as Bdelloids, that are known for their ability to survive
extremely low temperatures. Previously, it was known that they could live for up to a decade when frozen at about −20°C.
Well, they found a few
Immunized?
The other day, the German news agency, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), reported on a strange item.
On Sunday, the country’s disease control agency reported 74,053 new COVID-19 infections, less than from a week ago, when the Robert Koch Institute registered 11,224 daily infections. Experts think the most recent surge of infections in Germany—triggered by the BA.2 omicron subvariant—have peaked. With the fall of infection rates, many measures to reign in the pandemic
Judges: Introduction
This is the first in a series of posts on each pericope of Judges, essentially a distillation of what is in my Judges commentary (more on that here).
The verb “to judge” does not always indicate a judicial functionary. In Judges, the function of these God-raised leaders is best as seen as military judge-deliverers, as indicated in 2:16–17:
And Yahweh raised up judges
who delivered them from the hands of those who plundered them.
Judges 2:16–17
The book is gory, with
Nostalgia!
Are you suffering from general aches and pains? Stressed? Grieved?
There is a solution to all your woes: get nostalgic!
Chinese scientists say that taking a break to stroll down memory lane really does relieve those pangs, pins, and pinches. So say they, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in “Thalamocortical Mechanisms for Nostalgia-Induced Analgesia,” published recently in The Journal of Neuroscience.
Apparently what happens is that feeling nostalgic makes you overcome
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.