Goodbyes?
How long should a goodbye last? Is there any rule on this?
Now there is. In the airport at Dunedin, at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island.
So how long is too long to hug? Anything over 180 seconds, saith the authorities.
The airport’s chief executive, Dan De Bono, declared that three minutes was ample time to activate the happy hormones generated by a good hug.
He added:
To prove the point, I timed myself earlier that day, going the full quota in front of an audience
Sweetness!
Oops!
Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade was the culprit. Note: “Zero Sugar.”
Well, it wasn’t “Zero Sugar.” It had loads of sugar. Because those cans contained the regular lemonade formula. Full sugar! Sweet! 150 calories and 40g of sugar in each 12oz. can while the Zero Sugar version was supposed to have only 5 calories and 0 sugars.
13,152 cases, each with 12 cartons of 12 cans of 12 ounces of lemonade. That’s a lot of lemonade. (And a lot of sugar.)
Ye olde company,
Evildoers?
DailyMail.com, with J. L. Partners, ran a poll recently about Americans’ opinion about Adolf Hitler.
This evildoer (1889–1945), dictator of Nazi Germany, was one of the worst ones ever. He conducted a reign of terror that killed over six million Jews in the Holocaust and millions of other victims considered by the villain as unworthy of living under the Third Reich. Some historians have put the murder toll at a total of 20 million, not to mention the close-to-50 million
Lethality!
James Bond has more lives than a cat. So it is claimed in “No Time to Die: An In-depth Analysis of James Bond’s Exposure to Infectious Agents,” published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, by scientists from Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
These enterprising researchers (for want of anything better to do, apparently), studied heath risks in all James Bond films
Theology Issues–1
Another interview with friends from Asian Christian Academy‘s Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, India, a school with which I have had a long and fruitful association. Its president, Dr. Stephen George, and its Director of DMin Studies, Dr. Saji Thomas, were the hosts.
Part 1 here (Part 2 to follow next month):
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.