Fraud!
Over 25 percent of studies published in medical journals are fraudulent! So claims a group of researchers from the University of Magdeburg and the Max-Planck Institute in Germany, in “Fake Publications in Biomedical Science: Red-flagging Method Indicates Mass Production,” published as a preprint in medRxiv last month.
Using a simple, automated detection system the researchers looked for two telltale signs: Whether an author was registered with a personal, rather than
Electricity!
The Washington Post reported on an interesting story last month. About “Kosher Electricity.”
What on earth?
Here’s the problem Kosher Electricity is trying to solve. The ultra-Orthodox, the Haredim, constitute about 14 percent of Israel’s 9.5 million people. According to their rabbinical rules, it is not kosher to plug into the national grid to draw electricity from the national grid during Shabbat hours, from sundown on Fridays to sundown on Saturdays.
The strictest
Intestines!
There are, I’m sure you know, despite all the hullabaloo in society these days, differences between males and females. Besides the obvious, I want us to acknowledge another difference.
As reported by a group of researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke, and University of Minnesota. “Hidden Diversity: Comparative Functional Morphology of Humans and Other Species,” published in PeerJ.
The long and short of it (pun intended, but you won’t catch it till
Judges 17:1–18:31
Godless leadership leads to godlessness in society that invites the discipline of God.
Othniel is the perfect model of a judge; Ehud is deceptive; Barak is fearful; Gideon is skeptical and hubristic (and Abimelech is a bloodthirsty butcher—not a judge figure); Jephthah is a manipulator and a child-sacrificer; Samson cannot control his fleshly passions and defects from his calling. It is no wonder, then, that at the end the book of Judges, in the Epilogues (17:1–21:25),
Late?
Last week I touted (well, I quoted touts) the values of waking up earlier.
To be an equal opportunity touter, this week it is the other side: the values of waking up earlier (and staying up late).
Culture favors the larks, not the owls. Discrimination, saith I. Even proverbs are prejudiced; after all, it is the early bird that catches the worm. (Though I’ve often wondered why no one seems to be concerned about the fate of the early worm!)
Said one commentator in TIME
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.