Random links
- Science, Religion and the Great Stagnation
- "Question for the day: What if the science-religion conflict is hurting the economy? ... Here’s the speculation: we’re stuck in a Great Stagnation in part because the social status of scientists is too low. Fewer smart people become scientists, who in turn engage in less research and innovation, which in turn leads to fewer economic advances. Why the decline in social status? Perhaps because many scientists and public intellectuals have conjoined science with an anti-religious ideology, naturalism, that has soiled science in the minds of the largely religious American public (in part via the political activism of naturalists). One way to raise the social status of scientists is to break this connection. Thus, one way to exit the Great Stagnation is to sharply distinguish between the social practice of science and the ideology often held by its practitioners."
- A Christmas Prayer for North Korea's Christians
- A December 2012 piece from the Wall Street Journal on Christianity in North Korea.
- 6 Places You'll Recognize from the Background of Every Movie
- Some stuff just appears over and over again...
- Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests
- Darcia Narvaez, Notre Dame professor of psychology: "Ill-advised practices and beliefs have become commonplace in our culture, such as the use of infant formula, the isolation of infants in their own rooms or the belief that responding too quickly to a fussing baby will 'spoil' it." Effects suggested by the research: "Studies show that responding to a baby's needs (not letting a baby "cry it out") has been shown to influence the development of conscience; positive touch affects stress reactivity, impulse control and empathy; free play in nature influences social capacities and aggression; and a set of supportive caregivers (beyond the mother alone) predicts IQ and ego resilience as well as empathy. The United States has been on a downward trajectory on all of these care characteristics, according to Narvaez."