I would greatly appreciate more volunteers to help beta test AskBibleScholars.com
My original request is here and I am thankful for those that have started the testing process. However, the developer isn’t comfortable (and neither am I) coming out of beta testing until we’ve had a little more activity using the site....
Helots - The slave class of Sparta (en.wikipedia.org)
Something to keep in mind and that you realize after a while is that the history you know without much research or certainty is most likely the history of the ruling class, told to make they look as great as they believe to be....
How is it possible to be loved and yet to feel deeply lonely? | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
Study: Exclusionary rhetoric use by any political party increases votes for far-right parties (phys.org)
The rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe leads some mainstream political parties to attempt to regain the support of voters by adopting far-right pro-nationalist and anti-immigrant stances. However, new research coming out of Germany and Israel suggests that this strategy primarily benefits far-right parties and not the...
I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me. (www.huffpost.com)
70% Of Workers Lie On Resumes, New Study Shows (www.forbes.com)
Please help us test AskBibleScholars.com (www.askbiblescholars.com)
5 years ago I founded /r/AskBibleScholars and I’ve been wanting to bring this knowledge off-Reddit and into the wider Internet. Thankfully, @Penguincoder has been instrumental in getting this set up for us....
‘We’re sedating women with self-care’: how we became obsessed with wellness (www.theguardian.com)
Chicago Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum. Obama: Israel-Hamas war forcing 'moral reckoning on all of us' I 1 hour full speech from November 3, 2023 (many economic, social media, A.I. topics) (www.youtube.com)
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower (www.youtube.com)
The Internet of ghosts (snarkmarket.com)
[…] So often online, we interact in ways that are intimate enough to feel significant, but so disconnected they’re essentially mysterious. Sometimes on Napster, you’d begin downloading a file only to see its owner sever the connection. For rarer files, I remember this being every bit as devastating as it must have been for...
I felt numb – not sure what to do. How did deepfake images of me end up on a porn site? (www.theguardian.com)
I don’t remember the exact words my friend used. But I can recall the gist of it and his obvious discomfort. What he told me was stranger than I could ever have imagined. He said that he had encountered images of me on a porn site: manipulated, faked images, my face on other bodies, galleries of pictures uploaded by someone...
2023 Guide to Uncontacted Tribes: Advocating for Indigenous land Rights — Ultra Unlimited (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
The Chinese Warlord Era (1916-1928): Fragmentation, Militarism, the Rise of Authoritarianism (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
2023 Guide to Uncontacted Tribes: Advocating for Indigenous land Rights (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Key Takeaways...
Improving our (my?) relationship to news (alexsirac.com)
The Life and Wisdom of Confucius (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
How peer support can help with the mental health care crisis (aeon.co)
Mysterious rock depicted in 15th-century painting is most likely a Stone Age tool (arstechnica.com)
What a Japanese Neighbourhood Bar is Like [15:31] (youtu.be)
Settler colonialism is not distinctly Western or European (aeon.co)
Opinion | Ozempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken (www.nytimes.com)
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I'm working to revitalize an Indigenous language and bring it into the future (theconversation.com)
A history of unpopular protest: When is it morally justified to assert the primacy of the individual conscience against the law of the land? (newhumanist.org.uk)
On 16 February this year, seven Just Stop Oil protesters were found guilty of peacefully blocking the distribution of oil from the Esso Fuel Terminal in Birmingham in the UK. All were sentenced to 12 months conditional discharge with costs of up to £500. However, it was the views of District Judge Wilkinson, in sentencing them,...