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July 31, 2015
7QT: Well Designed Studies, Metaphors, and Parties
— 1 — I’ve had some pretty good Sondheim birthdays, but this toddler’s parents have thrown the best party. To celebrate her son’s first birthday, L’erin Dobra threw him a Mickey Mouse party. Planning out Grayson’s second birthday party, Ms. Dobra chose a different theme, one that reflected her little boy’s most passionate interest: New [Read More...]
July 24, 2015
7QT: Inventive takes on Electronics, Priesthood, and Stereoscopic Vision
— 1 — Thanks to anyone who contributed to my birthday fundraiser for GiveDirectly! I set $300 as a goal, and, between you guys and my offline friends, folks have raised over $400 for this highly effective cash transfer program! Also, because my friends, like me, are huge dorks, a number of people donated psuedononymously [Read More...]
July 21, 2015
Discounts and Donations on my Birthday!
Today’s my birthday! I’m celebrating by going to the monthly DC Shape Note sing and singing things like “David’s Lamentation!” Um, well… in a festive way. (Maybe that was not the right song example to give) Is “Balm in Gilead” better? Meanwhile, for you guys, I’m pleased to announce that the ebook version of Arriving [Read More...]
July 18, 2015
If You Like A Queer Calling, You May Want to Help Out the Authors
I’m a big fan of the blog A Queer Calling, and I’m lucky enough to know Lindsey and Sarah in real life. They write thoughtfully and generously about their experience offering learning how to live their vocation of love in a partnership, and they’ve placed hospitality/offering love to others at the center of their relationship. [Read More...]
July 17, 2015
7QT: Time-travel, Esperanto, Dinosaurs, and Other Oddly Expressed Dreams
— 1 — First things first: the song of the week — 2 — Elsewhere in science news, I really enjoyed this article about lizards who find their way home by a still unknown mechanism (especially all the weird ways scientists have tried to rule out various answers) Then the researchers created caps with pieces [Read More...]
July 16, 2015
Sophisters, Economists, and Calculators Succeed on the Last ITT Question
Keep your grain of salt handy (non-Christian responses question totaled just 36 replies), but that was enough to identify a Christian winner in the round that asked contestants “What’s a question you’re currently uncertain about, where you’d like to “flip to the back of the book” and find the answer now?” The ability of markets to provide [Read More...]
July 15, 2015
The Judges Lose The Ritual Round of the ITT
All right, take all the results with a grain of salt (non-Christian responses were low for this question — just 21 replies), but I’m hard pressed to crown a winner on this question instead of just saying that the judges lost. Technically this was the highest ranked fake-atheist response to “What role does ritual have [Read More...]
July 14, 2015
A (Narrow) Win for T.H. White in the Book Round of ITT
The first prompt in the non-Christian round of the 2015 Ideological Turing Test has a just-barely winner. The Christians mostly fell behind the real non-Christians, but our winner was practically tied with the atheist ranked just ahead, so I’m awarding the win on points. Here’s the winning fake-atheist response to “Name a book that shaped your moral [Read More...]
July 13, 2015
Read Like Me, Pray (Badly) Like Peter
Turing test results continue tomorrow, and, in the meantime, I’ve got links if you want to read like me or screw up like Peter. Ethika Politika has a summer reading recommendations feature running, and I’ve contributed the five books I’d recommend from my reading so far this year. Includes theology, data visualization, autopsies and this: Helen [Read More...]
July 10, 2015
No One Won The ‘Underappreciated’ Round of the 2015 ITT
The third prompt in the Christian round of the 2015 Ideological Turing Test is the first not to have a winner. Every non-Christian was ranked below the real Christians, when the Christian readers voted. But here’s the faux-Christian response to “What is an element of your tradition that is underappreciated by your fellow believers” that got [Read More...]
