Amit Agarwal who writes the blog Digital Inspiration offers a great tip on how to make Google Chrome more stable. Flash Player often crashes and the video you are watching goes blank. Argawal shows you how to make changes in Google Chrome’s settings to get Flash Player to play only on demand. That way, Flash Player is not on all the time thus making Chrome more stable. You can follow the steps at his site here. Read more

Ahead of the Super Bowl coming up this weekend, a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that about a quarter of Americans believe that ““God rewards athletes who have faith with good health and success.’” You can read the whole story at the CNN Belief Blog here. Read more

JellyTelly reviews Genesis and Exodus in an elementary and engaging way. Read more

In his technology blog, Digital Inspiration, Amit Agarwal, describes a great Chrome add-on called “Feeder“. It is, as Agarwal explains, ” like a mini Google Reader embedded in Chrome – it tracks RSS Feeds and offers instant notifications whenever new content is available.” It’s very cool. I installed it this afternoon. Every time you land on a site, Feeder detects the feeds and you can subscribe to them by clicking on the icon in your browser. I like the way... Read more

Google maps with Street View allows you to look at places around the world “through 360-degree street-level imagery.”  Google has put together a number of collections that include landmarks and natural wonders.  The one for Israel includes great images like the Western Wall, the Knesset, the Louis Promenade, and the Holy Sepulcher, to name just a few of the images. As we begin a unit on Judaism in my religion class, this collection should be a great addition. Read more

Here’s an interesting editorial by Washington Post writer, Lisa Miller, about reconciling gun ownership and Christianity. She argues that 59% of Christians who identify themselves as evangelical own handguns, and in spite of the recent murders in Connecticut, that 59% continues to oppose tighter regulation. Is that Christian, she asks? She outlines both the least persuasive and the most persuasive arguments in her editorial. Read more

My school has an electives fair at the end of January. Here’s a Google presentation that I created for the fair. I took a lot of material from the blog for the presentation in an attempt to show kids the importance of religion in today’s world. Here’s what it looks like. Read more

Lawrence Wright investigates the Church of Scientology in his new book, Going Clear. In this CNN report  The Church denies many of the claims in the book. Read more

As I noted in a couple earlier blogs, Maha Kumbh Mela is a Hindu holy festival that lasts 55 days and is considered to be the largest gathering in history. Harvard University is sending teams of researchers from different faculty departments–the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Design, the Business School, the School of Public Health, the Divinity School, and the School for Global Health– to study the different aspects of the festival that creates a temporary “pop-up... Read more