Entries of October, 2011
Today may be halloween, but it is also Reformation Day. In an interesting convergence of Luther, the Reformation, and Pop Culture, the Bangles offer the following video. Enjoy:
(Continue reading…)Tomorrow marks Reformation Day, or Halloween, take your pick. But before you can say trick or treat you will see the costumes vanish from WalMart and the Christmas trees arise. As you think about what to buy for Christmas, here is an idea: buy something useful. Enough of the materialistic junk we buy that we [...]
(Continue reading…)This fall we created our own program for the Beasts of Workout, including a 30 day challenge. One guy lost 10 pounds in that span, others talked about the change in muscle definition. Some are continuing the workout. Give it a try if you dare!
(Continue reading…)In his fascinating book The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century author Thomas Friedman decries how American students have fallen behind other nations in such fields as math and engineering. At the same time students in the U.S. have excelled at becoming couch potatoes: 65% of Americans are overweight, but this [...]
(Continue reading…)When a young person hits Play on her iPod she probably gives no thought to Thomas Edison. But Edison invented the phonograph, which led to a revolution in recording music from its early days to iTunes today. Edison invented the phonograph not to play music, however. He invented it to record the last words of [...]
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