Hear?
You think you are going bonkers? Me, too.
I have a solution for all our problems. Hearing aids!
So saith a group of researchers in Singapore in “Association of Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants With Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” published in JAMA Neurology last December.
Bottom line: Using hearing aids significantly reduce the risk for cognitive decline and dementia and even improve short-term cognitive function in individuals
Dr. AI?
I’m in trouble. As a doc. And you’re in trouble. As a patient.
Two artificial intelligence (AI) programs—including ChatGPT (= Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, launched in November 2022)—have passed the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). This is the standardized examination, given in three steps, to all medical graduates desiring to practice in the US of A.
Two research groups demonstrated this recently, publishing their work in medRxiv as
Relationships!
Last month, Drs. Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, wrote a fascinating essay in The New York Times: “The Lifelong Power of Close Relationships,” adapted from their recent bestseller, The Good Life.
The study that these authors direct has been ongoing for 85 years (and is still continuing), tracking an original group of 724 men and more than 1,300 of their male and female descendants over three generations, and asking
Judges 8:33–10:5
The illicit thirst for power, destructive in its ramifications, brings about fitting retribution from God.
Of all the narratives in the book of Judges, Yahweh’s presence is felt the least in this account of Abimelech. Deity is present, but almost always as ’elohim, “God,” not “Yahweh” (8:34; 9:7, 9, 13, 23, 56, 57). And in every instance, this occurs as part of a pejorative statement by the narrator or a character. There is no direct link between Abimelech
Haze?
Waze, the popular GPS app, leads to brain haze. (And so do other GPS apps.)
So claim researchers at McMaster University, in “Orienteering Experts Report More Proficient Spatial Processing and Memory Across Adulthood, in Public Library of Science One.
Orienteering? That’s a group of sports requiring one to employ one’s navigational skills with a traditional map and compass to move from point to pint in unfamiliar terrain in the shortest time possible. In other words,
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.