Rhinotillexomania!
What’s that you ask? Well, it’s all Greek, you see!
Rhino = nose. Tillexis = habit of picking. Mania—you know what that is. Putting it all together, you get: the habit of nose-picking. You do it. And so do I. It seems.
In fact, in 1995, a formal study was undertaken: researchers mailed a Rhinotillexomania Questionnaire to 1000 randomly selected adult residents of Dane County, Wisconsin. Of the 254 that responded, a whopping 91% confessed to picking their noses. (1.2%
Splat!
Andrew Van Dam had an interesting analysis the other day in The Washington Post: “Wait, Why Are There So Few Dead Bugs on My Windshield These Days?”
He’s been noticing it. Long summer trips without those tiny corpses gone splat! on your windshield and grille and headlamps and all.
Now, many folks can’t remember the last time they had to scour the bug gore from their RAV4. It feels like a fundamental pillar of the planet’s ecology has snapped.”
Apparently windshield
Thoughts!
Wonderful stuff! A guy who had a stroke and was paralyzed totally, including the loss of ability to speak, can now communicate.
This was reported by neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from UCSF and UC Berkely a few weeks ago: “Generalizable Spelling Using a Speech Neuroprosthesis in an Individual with Severe Limb And Vocal Paralysis,” published in Nature Communications.
Electrodes were implanted the patient’s brain and he attempted to say code words that stood for each
Hmm?
All kinds of odd things have been touted as having life-changing benefits. One of them is now proven to be effective. The unsung merits of humming! Yup, humming!
Brian Lai, a breathwork specialist based in Hong Kong, told VICE recently:
When a person first hears that the simple act of humming has various benefits, it sounds way too simple, almost ridiculous. But when we take a look under the hood of the human body, we can begin to understand why it has been used for centuries,
Judges 5:1–31
Participation in the endeavors of God, as he fights for his people and empowers them, keeps one blessed.
The prose account of Barak’s victory in Judges 4 is completed only by the addition of 5:31b: the statement of the land’s rest. In that sense, the Song of Deborah in 5:1–31a is an interpolation of sorts, with a theological thrust of its own.
Right from the get-go, Yahweh is praised for Israel’s “leaders” and “people” enrolling to fight (5:2). Soon 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.