OD?
The US Food & Drug Administration last year approved an over-the-counter nasal spray naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, allowing the opioid overdose reversal medication to be sold directly to consumers. According to advocates, everyone should be carrying one of these.
Said Nichole Dawsey, the executive director of PreventEd:
Most of the people that we’re giving Narcan to are either—A: lacking insurance and they’re not going to go into CVS or
Cluck?
Snakes hiss. Dogs growl. Cats purr. Etc. Without giving it a moment’s thought, we can understand the voicings. Stay away! Or: Back off! Or: I love this! Etc.
What about chickens that cluck?
Turns out humans may be just as good at understanding the language of our feathered friends. Or so saith researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, in “Humans Can Identify Reward-Related Call Types of Chickens,” published this month in Royal Society Open Science.
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Overs!
I have news for you!
Conventional wisdom calls upon us to be our best, perfect, and that that makes us productive. Well, apparently, that ain’t true. So say researchers from Georgia Tech, University of Florida, and Miami University in “Is Perfect Good? A Meta-Analysis of Perfectionism in the Workplace” published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
I’ll let them speak for themselves:
The answer to the question ‘Is perfect good?’ is that in total, perfectionism
Amputation?
Many prehistoric handprints apparently show a finger missing. Now Canadian scientists say evidence from cave art all over the world shows digits may have been ritually removed to appease deities or aid social cohesion.
In a paper presented at a recent meeting of the European Society for Human Evolution, researchers Profs. Mark Collard, Brea McCauley, and David Maxwell of Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC) pointed to 25,000-year-old paintings in France and Spain that
1 Timothy 3:1–16
Corporate conduct in the divine household is to be guided by leaders characterized by virtue, modeling exemplary traits for the faith and praxis of every member of the divine household.
This pericope moves from the Epistle’s most recent concern: who should not teach in the corporate context (2:12–15), to its current issue: who should (3:1–7).
It is notable that the elder list commences and concludes with the demand that an elder be “irreproachable” (3:2) and one
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.