Saturday This and That

Some things that caught my eye this past week.

David McCullough on the Wright Brothers...
...in an interview with the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast.

The next time someone's offended because you fail to notice someone's new haircut...
...tell them it's that pesky inattentional blindness. Actually, this article makes me wonder about what a mess my brain must be because I always notice changes in people's haircuts.

What might Michael Jackson have looked like...
...if he hadn't had all those surgeries.

How has nobody thought of this until now?...
...it's a shoe that grows with a child's foot.

Disgusted with the misogyny and gratuitous sexual violence of Game of Thrones?...
...You're not alone. I've never seen it. This doesn't make me want to.

A way to get kids to listen to the sermon on Sunday...
...amazingly simple.

It's the only technique for learning...
...or so says James Altucher.

Science says that two basic traits...
...are what make all relationships work. Cinchy, right?

The Backwards Brain Bicycle...



Anxious, afraid?...
...Check out the Bible verses linked here.

Notes by Martin Luther found...
...They were jotted down (if you can imagine someone as intense as Luther ever jotting) as he worked on his important essay on Christian freedom.

How Lutherans might cross themselves...
...and why they might want to do so.

The five best running backs...
...in Ohio State history. Joe Dexter has so far named four of them on Buckeye Sports Radio:

#5: Howard "Hopalong" Cassidy #4: Keith Byars #3: Chic Harley #2: Eddie George #5: Archie Griffin

What the Inklings wrought...
...(Hint: They had an enormous impact on the world and still are impacting it.) A sample:

Drawing as much from their scholarship as from their experience of a catastrophic century, they had fashioned a new narrative of hope amid the ruins of war, industrialization, cultural disintegration, skepticism, and anomie. They listened to the last enchantments of the Middle Ages, heard the horns of Elfland, and made designs on the culture that our own age is only beginning fully to appreciate. They were philologists and philomyths: lovers of logos (the ordering power of words) and mythos (the regenerative power of story), with a nostalgia for things medieval and archaic and a distrust of technological innovation that never decayed into the merely antiquarian. Out of the texts they studied and the tales they read, they forged new ways to convey old themes — sin and salvation, despair and hope, friendship and loss, fate and free will — in a time of war, environmental degradation, and social change.

Tantrum...
...This mom seems to say, "This is how ridiculous you look when you have a tantrum. Now, let's go before I let you have it." Advert from the UK.



By the way...
...when watching the video linked in the article on inattentional blindness, I lost count of the number of passes between people in white shirts because I noticed the gorilla. Does that mean I can't focus? Maybe I suffer from the as yet undiscovered attention satiety. Squirrel...