Do?
A Space-Out … competition? Yes, it is a thing. And it involves being spaced-out for 90 minutes, all of 5,400 seconds! No sleeping, no noise, no checking phones, no eating, no nothing! Just being spaced-out!
The current champion, Denis Kwan Hong-Wang, wrote about his experience in The Guardian the other day:
From an early age I worried if I was doing enough. That brought a lot of anxiety. I started to practice mindfulness in 2012. It helps a lot with my emotions, and I
Day?
Wednesday, July 9, 2025. A most unusual day they said it was. Likely the shortest day of your life. And mine. And everyone else’s, too.
Because … it was the shortest day period. In history! Scientists discovered that July 9, July 22, and August 5, were/will be 1.30–1.51 milliseconds shorter than the standard day.
What happened? Well, the earth’s rotation has sped up in recent years.
And how did that happen? Who knows! It’s still a mystery, but scientists believe
War?
There is, apparently, an account on X, called “Pentagon Pizza Report.” It monitors pizza takeaway spots in Arlington County, Virginia, home of America’s military headquarters, using Google’s restaurant footfall data.
According to the Telegraph, a few weeks ago, on a Thursday night, every establishment slinging dough within three miles of the Pentagon saw a sudden spike in customers. Just 10 minutes later, there was a significant drop in footfall in each
Mind!
The latest is an AI called Centaur. And it can read your mind! So reported researchers, collaborating across several institutions in Germany, the UK, and the USA, in an article published recently in Nature: “A Foundation Model to Predict and Capture Human Cognition.” I.e., it can predict and simulate human behavior in any experiment expressible in natural language.
The human mind is remarkably general. Not only do we routinely make mundane decisions, such as choosing
2 Timothy 3:1–17
God’s people follow godly models, trusting in divine deliverance from inevitable persecution, and continuing in Scripture that edifies, making them capable and fully equipped for good works.
In 3:1–5, Paul creates a worst-case scenario of the “last days” with the eighteen vices listed, making it one of the longest such lists in the NT. The items run together in a conjunction-free structure, to paint a general picture of evil in the future. If there is a theme to
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.