{"id":863,"date":"2019-11-19T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2019-11-19T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:55:42","slug":"web-roundup-dec-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/19\/web-roundup-dec-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Roundup – Dec. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Peter Attia podcast: Peter interviews Scott Harrison, founder of Charity:Water<\/a>. An inspiring story of someone with a glamorous life who found real meaning and purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pew: Millennial households are earning more than most older Americans did at the same age<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonbeliever Tim Bray’s thoughts on attending a worship service on Christmas Eve<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nutrition Coaltion: Low-Carb Diet Yields Groundbreaking Results for T2 Diabetes<\/a> (Report to Congress). Plus this: Nutrition Coaltion: Diabetes and Obesity Still on the Rise \u2013 Billions Spent Promoting Dietary Guidelines Hasn\u2019t Made a Dent<\/a>. Some interesting stats in there. Also note where Alaska ranks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And among those animals on two legs there are some who are deserving of that description \u2014 humans.” Simcha Rotem, last surviving fighter in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 94<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A hero of the Rwandan Genocide has died<\/a>. I’m still thinking about the theological implications of the method she used to deter the interhamwe militia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Mary\u2019s \u2018Magnificat\u2019 in the Bible is revolutionary. Some evangelicals silence her.<\/a> “Some” people do all kinds of things. But good luck. It would be like trying to make water dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six Reasons Why Young People Leave the Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitol Hill has lost 40% of its buildings devoted to religious practice. Does a religious community need its own building to flourish? <\/a>(WashingtonPost) (Note to self: Resist the impulse to tie this to the state of national politics.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sikhs, the new lions of the American trucking industry<\/a> (GetReligion)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aeon: Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cosmic Airburst May Have Wiped Out Part of the Middle East 3,700 Years Ago<\/a>. My first thought on reading this was “Sodom and Gomorrah<\/a>.” Someday I’m going to get around to reading 1177 BC: The Year that Civilization Collapsed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apropos the previous, consider the following from the ADN: Meteor swarm could be loaded with surprises in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some of the traffic is going the other way: Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space, Over 18 Billion Kilometers from Earth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oops! I wrote all that late last year, but apparently I never got around to publishing the draft. I wonder how many of these links still work?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Attia podcast: Peter interviews Scott Harrison, founder of Charity:Water. An inspiring story of someone with a glamorous life who found real meaning and purpose. Pew: Millennial households are earning more than most older Americans did at the same age. Nonbeliever Tim Bray’s thoughts on attending a worship service on Christmas Eve. Nutrition Coaltion: Low-Carb Diet … Continue reading »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469],"tags":[720,721],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tab-sweep","tag-charitywater","tag-millennials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}