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The most significant textual variants in the New Testament reveal both the complexity of the Bible’s transmission and the remarkable preservation of Christian doctrine.
One of my regular readers recently told me that an Asian masseuse he knows wanted to tell her story; since these women now bear the brunt of anti-sex worker police violence in the US, I was happy to provide her the opportunity. CiCi...
My friend got the Dune board game as a Christmas gift.
“Something is up in academic research,” write the members of an AI Task Force convened by the journal Organization Science. As they go on to ... Read more The post Easy is Overrated appeared first on Cal Newport.
The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich The story of John C. Houbolt, a NASA engineer who pushed for Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for the Apollo program. Just 3 hours long but interesting. 3/5 Who Owns This Sentence: A History of...
I’m on the road this week and that means I’m loading up some music for long days in the airport and longer nights in the air. I have a long tradition of putting albums on my phone and when I decide to listen to some music finding nothing...
Just trying to answer one simple question: What if the terminal was 3D?
For today’s TDC -I do enjoy it when I find time to doodle. Hand Snail flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today's links 2024 (apart from the obvious): Some unforced errors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Denmark legalizing music trading; Babysuit; Patent Office invites "peer review"; DRM protest at the Bastille;...
It's handy to be able to post things in the future
"In 2017, when I was struggling daily with the growing desire to die, I made a playlist. The playlist was thirty-one songs, all by the Mountain Goats, titled simply: stay alive. "
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the...