Yesterday was the anniversary of the execution of three German university students, devout Christians, who spoke out against Hitler on the basis of their faith. In this account, contemplate their words that got them guillotined: On February 22, 1943, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and
Webmonk alerted me to a post on Freakonomics about a test for eighth graders from 1895. The urban legend site Snopes labeled this as “False.” But the only false part of it seems to be the claim that it shows a decline in educational levels
Lest anyone assume that earthquakes only devastate poor Third World societies, consider what has happened in New Zealand: New Zealand’s prime minister says at least 65 people have died after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch. John Key said the toll was expected to rise further,
As evidence that pro-lifers are winning the arguments, consider how pro-death activist Frances Kissling is recognizing that her movement needs to make some adjustments: We can no longer pretend the fetus is invisible. We can no longer seek to banish the state from our lives,
A baby’s mind is bigger! So says David Brooks, citing a Caltech scientist, at the conclusion of a long, discursive essay in the New Yorker: We have a hundred billion neurons in the brain; infants create as many as 1.8 million neural connections per second;
In the monumental quest to improve D.C. schools, officials are collecting tons of data. Here is a use of that information that might actually lead to genuine reforms: evaluating not just teachers but the college departments of education that trained those teachers: A lesser-known result
The Epistle reading for yesterday included a verse that I had never heard preached on or exposited, one that I had never attended to before, despite years of Bible reading: For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or
Have the Republicans found “the one”? Read the Washington Post‘s profile of the new Wisconsin governor, 43-year-old Scott Walker, whose hard line with the public employee union has teachers and other state employees taking to the streets. (Note: He is not taking away their right
We keep hearing that the divorce rate among Christians is the same as–or maybe a little worse–than that of non-Christians. That may not be true, at least when you factor in how serious the Christians in question are about their faith: “Christians divorce at roughly
Now that the Egyptians have thrown off their authoritarian ruler, pro-democracy uprisings are threatening one of the worst dictators of all, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. He is reportedly responding with machine guns. The king of Bahrain is in trouble. Meanwhile, mass protests have also broken out
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