Neumatikos

What’s the deal with immunizations? One side is dogmatic about giving them and the other is dogmatic about refusing them. I’ve been recently looking at the controversy trying to decide whether to continue with the normal schedule of shots, to slow it down a bit (i.e. space out the shots over a longer [...]

that caught my attention:

“If death is to be approached as martyrdom” he says, in the context of dying of old age, as if that were an assumption that everyone had already thought of. We proceed from there:

If death is to be approached as martyrdom, i.e., as an opportunity to witness to our faith, what [...]

When I consider your heavens and the work of your fingers, The moon ad the stars, which you have set in place, What is man that you are mindful of him The son of man, that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly [...]

As I was saying, I’m required by my class to read 1500 pages in addition to the assigned text, so I’ve been browsing the academic archives for articles relevant to pastoral counseling.

Be forewarned: Stay away from the Journal of Pastoral Counseling. It gives a whole new meaning to the concept of Peer Review. [...]

Via William Dembski All the fuss causes the critically minded to speculate if it’s for the sake of the children or rather about something else the hypertolerant malcontents themselves do not want to confront. A child not belonging to the Christian faith is not going to necessarily pick up on any Christian motifs Lewis might have [...]

Kyle was reading me some excepts from anarticle and this passage stuck out to me:

That phrase — “it was selected for” — is regarded as a sufficient explanation for . . . everything.

BBC News:

Two Australian scientists have been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine for their discovery that stomach ulcers can be caused by a bacterial infection.

I thought this was pretty fascinating. Before Robin Warren’s and Barry Marshall’s discovery in 1982, it was pretty much a given that ulcers were caused by too [...]

On Wednesday, I received an email from the Drexel MPH program. They had received my release form for their program to review the application I filled out for Drexel University Medical School. They asked so nicely for it too…Anyway, yesterday’s email told me that they needed a personal statement from me before the [...]

If you type “epulopiscium” into google search, my post is at the top of the list. I’m above several schools including Cornell and Kenyon, and also above MedPub (which is a really good website for med related articles if you have the subscription) and the Britannica Student Encyclopedia.

Cool.

Now I suppose that I shouldn’t be writing about bacteria around lunch time but this sucker is cool…..

It’s called Epulopiscium fischelsoni and was found in the gut of a surgeon fish in the Red Sea. Most scientists believed that bacteria couldn’t get very big because the critters don’t have a system for getting food [...]