Smiling!
Smile. Laugh. Your life depends on it. So said researchers from Yamagata University, Japan, in “Associations of Frequency of Laughter With Risk of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in a General Population,” in the Journal of Epidemiology recently.
Researchers worked with 17,152 participants aged 40 or younger and tracked how often they laughed over several years and concluded that increasing the frequency of laughter will reduce the risk of cardiovascular
Hydraulics!
Deserts and water do not usually go together, but geologists and hydrologists from a consortium of universities in France think they do. At least in this instance, they claim, in “On the Possible Use of Hydraulic Force to Assist with Building the Step Pyramid of Saqqara,” published recently in Public Library of Science ONE.
Yup, water power could have helped Egyptians build the pyramids.
They discovered a complex system of dams and channels near the Step Pyramid (or
Terminal!
Rollercoasters are not for the fainthearted. Not for me, that’s for sure.
But now for the really stout-hearted who want to end it all (so are they in reality fainthearted?), there is the Euthanasia Coaster.
Actually, you can’t ride it yet. It is only conceptual, but there’s a scale model. Both conception and modeling were the products of Julijonas Urobnas, a doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Art in London (and former amusement park employee). Here’s his
Grail?
CNN recently reported on the Holy Grail—the cup that was supposed to have been used by the Lord Jesus at the Last Supper (“grail,” from the Old French graal/greal, “cup”). It first showed up in written history more than millennium after its actual use, in Perceval, the Story of the Grail, a romance written around 1190. But now it’s part of pop culture:
Dan Brown made millions off his interpretation of the Holy Grail in the “Da Vinci Code,” in which he posited
1 Timothy 6:1–2
The service of believing slaves towards their masters, a benefaction bestowed by the former upon the latter, is paradigmatic of selflessness and godliness in the divine household, as believers serve one another with good works, thus enhancing the reputation of God.
In 6:2, it appears that that situation is of believing slaves working for believing masters; therefore, it seems that 6:1 deals with the case of believing slaves working for unbelieving masters. In the latter
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.