Sounds!
Results of a massive study of 272,229 European adults were published this week, “Metabolic Profiles of Nighttime Road Traffic Noise Exposure,” in Environmental Research, by researchers from Finland, Netherlands, UK, and the USA.
Annual average nighttime road traffic noise was linked to the individual residential addresses of all the subjects at the time of blood sampling, using national noise maps. We utilized high-throughput nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomics
Parents!
What’s the secret to having a fuller social life with thriving relationships? We might not know all the answers, but there are hints. A new one: your relationship with your parents during your teenage years.
So claim scientists from Columbia University, New York, in “Family Connection in Adolescence and Social Connection in Adulthood,” published recently in JAMA Pediatrics.
A two decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage
Destination?
He thought he was headed from Los Angeles to Managua, Nicaragua, with a layover in Houston. He thought wrong. And ended up in Haneda airport, Tokyo, 8,000 miles (about 12,000 kilometers) off target!
The passenger reportedly realized mid-flight, after about six hours, that he was on the wrong aircraft, when he asked the flight attendant why the trip to Houston was taking so long (should’ve been about 3 hours from LAX to IAH). That’s when the error was discovered. The
Frozen!
As with most of the continental United States, Florida, too, has been experiencing record low temperatures in the last couple of weeks. The other day, the mercury dipped to 25ºF (-4ºC), the lowest ever recorded in February in at least a century.
All kinds of problems occur in temperatures such as these: frozen pipes that burst and flood homes (yup, been there, done that: see here), all kinds
Psalm 2:1–12
The refusal of rebelling, conspiring, or opposing rulers anywhere to submit reverentially to divine rule, the scope and extent of which has no bounds, meets with an appropriate response—dismissive, dreadful, and destructive—from God and his personally appointed Son-King with whom he is closely identified.
Psalm 2 is carefully structured with four stanzas of three verses each. Remarkably, there are also four specific references to deity’s representative, once in each
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.