Guts?
Your guts are linked to your exercise regimen (in addition to other things). Who knew? Well, scientists from the University of Tübingen, Germany, did. So they claimed in bioRXiv recently: “Resistance Training Reshapes the Gut Microbiome for Better Health.”
Bacteria, fungi, viruses, and who knows what else thrive in our intestines. (Just bacteria alone, it is estimated that there are 100 trillion of them hiding out in our guts. That’s twice as many as the cells we
Cabal!
A few months ago, The Wall Street Journal reported on a most unusual criminal enterprise. In Bali, Indonesia.
Every week, this cabal steals dozens of phones, wallets, and other valuables from tourists in broad daylight and exchange them for handsome rewards. It’s been going on for decades and nobody’s been able to stop it.
Who makes up this criminal enterprise, this mafia? Long-tailed macaques. Yup!
Said Jonathan Hammé, 64, a London tourist, and victim of this primate
Distant!
We use lots of cues to make sure we don’t get lost. Familiar landmarks, general sense of direction, an estimate of how far we have walked, etc. Apparently the last is very important—there is a portion of the brain dedicated to that estimation. Yup, a milometer in the brain.
Thus saith researchers from the UK, US, and Australia in “Grid Cell Distortion Is Associated with Increased Distance Estimation Error in Polarized Environments,” published this month in Current
Titus 1:1–16
Godly, blameless stewards of the church, who hold firmly the word God in their lives and their teaching, exhort and reprove rebellious false teachers in the church who, engaging in deceptive teaching and upset households, are detestable in God’s eyes.
Titus 1:1–4, is a single sentence: sixty-five words in the Greek text. “Faith” and “truth [for godliness]” seem to be the focus of this salutation, appropriate for a letter to Cretan Christians who are going to
Wait!
Waiting is always boring, and we do anything we can not to have to wait. Scrolling on our phones, perusing our social media, listening to a podcast or music …. We want instant gratification, failing which, we try to keep ourselves amused with something diversionary, so we don’t have to think about … waiting (which only makes time go slower).
But, writes Dr. Ayse Burcin Baskurt, at the University of East London, waiting isn’t always bad. Research has shown that waiting
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.