50. Adversity, Opportunity, Challenges and Four Words

Rehearsing portions of speeches by Amiee Mullins at TED; remember that Christ has retained his scars; admitting a business venture that is proceeding in ignorance; and loving “The God Who Only Knows Four Words.”

 
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49. Airlines, Obesity, Flesh, and Consequence

Exploring the techniques that the flesh uses to delude us into believing that we understand the consequences of our decisions by examining a commentary by NRP’s Scott Simon on Kevin Smith’s encounter with Southwest Airlines.

 
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48. Religion, Entertainment, Politics and Business

Exploring the basic problem common to every human organization; quickly reviewing the book “Fast Food Nation” and the television series “Undercover Boss”; suggesting that we make every effort to treat everyone around us as human beings.

 
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47. Speeches, Toys, Libraries, and Quests

Practicing for a talk that I’ve been invited to give for students at my alma mater.

 
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46. Epigenetics, Famine, Gluttony, and Grandchildren

Rehearsing the week’s events; reviewing an article in Time magazine on the field of epigenetics; reflecting on a predictable response from evolutionary biologists; highlighting the important consequences of protecting our own genomes.

 
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45. Football, Cake, Fruit and Decision-Making

Commenting on Brett Farve’s performance in the Vikings vs. the Saints game;  rehearsing the results of a fascinating study on the mechanisms involved in decision-making; offering some pointer on improving our decision-making

 
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44. Challenges, Relief, Destruction and Resilience

Recounting the interesting investigations at work; commenting on Haiti; recalling the 20/20 interview with Katie Piper; celebrating her resilience.

 
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43. Human-ness, Switches, Genes, and Intellectual Suicide

Reviewing the second half of the Nova program “What Darwin Never Knew”; considering the statistical analysis on the one percent difference between humans and chimpanzees;  marveling at the number of “human accelerated regions” in the human genome; considering the intellectual suicide that is inherent in theory of atheistic evolution.   (Oops, people didn’t believe in the “spark of God” for hundreds of millions of years, they supposedly believed in it for only hundreds of years!!!)

 
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42. Diversity, Mice, Genomes and Kings

Recalling the amazing diversity of life; rehearsing interesting portions of the first half of the Nova program “What Darwin Never Knew”; remember that we all battle with the flesh and the spirit.

 
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41. Shepherds, Regrets, Resolutions, and Doing

Rehearsing the story of the shepherds, regretting the past; abandoning New Year’s resolutions, making the determination to “go and see.”

 
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