A Facebook friend drew this cartoon by Tom Gauld to my attention. This could be a discussion between a professor and their undergraduate student, or between two academic colleagues. There are different kinds of impenetrable language, but I suspect that the aim is often the same: to shield the actual claims (if there are any) from criticism. Read more
This morning the two recent statements by president Donald Trump coalesced in my mind into a single meme. I hope it manages to make its point well. If you like it, please share it! If you are from outside the United States and I need to explain the background to the joke, here it is. On the one hand, Donald Trump recently said that being president is harder than he thought it would be. On the other hand, he said... Read more
The composer wrote the piece after experiencing the death of his child. Read more
Perhaps the most unusual example of Biblically-themed music that I have come across in my explorations of that intersection… Read more
The “end of the world” is typically good news for someone. In some dystopian scenarios, big corporations make enormous profits. And in some utopian scenarios, those same corporations get what’s coming to them. What are your thoughts about this cartoon? Read more
The Doctor and Bill land in London 1814, and the episode starts with lots of interesting discussions of the danger of time travel to a time when slavery still exists, as well as the potential to step on a butterfly and alter the future. With respect to the latter, the Doctor says it is just like any other day. And with respect to the past being “a bit more black” than one sees in the movies, the Doctor says “so was Jesus”... Read more
April 29th is apparently Tabletop Day, and so this seems as good a time as any to share this somewhat overdue piece of information. I received notification a while back that I’ve had a paper accepted for SBL 2017 in Boston. The title is “Can the Dynamics of Canon Formation be Replicated through Game Mechanics? An Experiment in Gamified Pedagogy” and it will be presented under the auspices of the Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies program unit. A... Read more
We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium, sponsored by BIRTHA (The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts) to be held at the University of Bristol, on Friday July 7th 2017. Keynote speakers: Dr Kate Devlin (Goldsmiths) Dr Genevieve Liveley (Bristol) Dr Rae Muhlstock (NYU) The aim of the day is to bring together researchers from different disciplines – scholars in Archaeology & Anthropology, Classics, English, History, and Theology as well as in AI, Robotics, Ethics, and Medicine –... Read more
The view of our planet from the sky can be breathtaking. But what happens when a pilot takes advantage of his enormous window to look upwards, and takes a video of what he sees? That’s what pilot Sales Wick shares with us in the video above. Wow! Read more
Do you agree? Why or why not? Read more
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