Foundational Weapons For A Modern War
On July 24, 1972, biochemist David Wong identified a chemical he called “Lilly 110140,” which was effective in treating mental illness while avoiding the risks associated with the earlier drugs. The experimental drug made by the partnership of Wong, Ray Fuller, and Bryan Molloy was later dubbed Fluoxetine, and in December of
My five-year-old and I walked briskly up the courthouse steps. I chose not to wear a jacket I’d have to take off at the security checkpoint, and I was unarmed because courthouses are afraid of the second amendment. As we stepped through the door I saw the icy stares on two security
When we think of rigged sporting events, we get a mental image of shady businessmen in expensive suits handing over cash-stuffed envelopes. We think of players throwing games, or coaches deliberately sabotaging their team’s efforts. That’s not happening; at least, I don’t think it is. I could be wrong. But the NFL
Why do we assume that scientists are smarter than we are? They can be just as ignorant about some things as the rest of us. I believe the reason we trust scientists to comprehend things better than your average Joe is that we have a misguided notion that scientists are, you know,
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I’m a movie nerd. Blame it on cable television, or the ‘80s, or Boomer parents who let us Gen-Xers watch pretty much anything we could find. I saw it all, and for better or worse it shaped my worldview. Movies do that, because seeing John McClane jump off an exploding building with
Continue readingMovie School: Teaching Through Cinema The Right Way
There are a lot of things competing for our time, I get it. When it comes to media, Christians have a tendency to focus on the overtly Jesus content and there’s not much time left over for things that seem marginally important to the church. In our pie graph of time allocation,
Continue readingLet My People Go: A Film The Church Needs To See
“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.” -President Harry S. Truman Jack Ryan was a stud; so was John Clark. For those who aren’t familiar with these names, they were the primary characters