Apparently Norway is worried that English is becoming the academic language.
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240718081332244

The Norwegian parliament has endorsed a government proposal that makes competence in the Norwegian language a prerequisite for academics seeking ...

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My latest musing is that King George and Donald Trump should enter a steel cage to determine the ownership of Canuckistan.

I'm surprised the sanctions on ICC didn't make your list. It's my personal favorite Trump action though.

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the International Criminal Court (ICC), as established by the Rome Statute, has engaged in illegitimate and baseless ...

Updated. Our last name is the only multiple-digit entry where every digit is the same number (222 days) since the last and only other one Bieberville (22 days).

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Can confirm... he has an email
https://clip.cafe/cruel-intentions-1999 ... edophiles/

Don't answer. Saxi is just looking for someone to bunk with.

Imagine of i told you of a country where they have a law which makes noon 1:15 PM.

That's Canada.

Woodruff? There was another one too but I can't remember the name.

1. people in Western countries don't eat enough Western sandwiches

I'm "not showing reverence" to hypocritical bible thumpers that can't keep their beliefs to themselves....


What makes you think that they were hypocritical or that they were Bible thumpers? What do you mean by "couldn't keep their beliefs to themselves"? Isn't that what forums are for, to share ...

So, just to follow up this topic. Chemistry World is running a special on Chemistry of the Brain. One of the best articles is this one:
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/why-dont-we-know-how-antidepressants-work-yet/4019673.article


As such it might seem strange that researchers like Hashemi ...

From page 24 to the front of the line.

The Greater Good Institute at Berkeley researches what leads to well-being and the techniques to achieve it.

After several years of research they came up with a list, all of which are things commanded by the Bible.


Altruism
Awe
Bridging Differences
Compassion
Diversity
Empathy
Forgiveness ...

The "Blue Zones" refers to the regions of the world where people are most likely to live to 100 years old. What do they have in common? Lots of things. No surprise that this is on the list "All but five of the 263 centenarians we interviewed belonged to some faith-based community."

https://www ...

Resource number one is a bit older, but one that I have referenced quite a few times:
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/go-church-even-youre-not-sure-beliefs/

The reasons, in short:
Greater social support
chance to slow down and think
builds discipline
power in ritual
stronger ...

Every few months, I come upon a resource that shows reasons to become a Christian even for people who can't understand why others would believe in God. Here's where I can post some of those resources.

First up is a megastudy (over 10 000 studies referenced): Oxford Handbook of Religion and Health ...

A Master's Student in Polish history. Went to shoot up the Philosophy department. I'm sure there's a joke there, but I'm not crass enough to make it. Perhaps this erudite forum can help me out.

Language spoken at Home: Russian

Which dialect do you mean? Are you referring to Attic greek or to the Old Athenian dialect spoken until the 1830s?

Putting up with Christmas nonsense should be restricted to the period of Dec 21st (to celebrate the holiday's true meaning as a pagan celebration of the solstice) to the actual day of Christian Christmas on Jan 7th.
This is the kind of nonsense up with which I shall not put.

"true meaning" does ...

Back when I was atheist, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christopher Hitchens and Co. Really persuaded me. It was when I started seeing all the holes in their arguments that I could take Christianity seriously as a body of thought.

Somebody else made the jump:
https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/

It doesn't quite fit the avatar box, but I appreciate the picture nonetheless. My wife is a bit less impressed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/magazine/teen-bariatric-surgery.html

For those without a sub, I'll put a few points below. It's a really long article mostly about the people getting the surgery. The bits about food stood out.
But if our genes didn’t change significantly in the last century, why ...

Will the world have its first libertarian president?

It's a pretty bad sign of the times when his Wikipedia page in describing his political views spends over a paragraph just describing different words that people have labelled him as. Labels aren't "views". They are the opposite. It is how people ...

Here's a scary sign. Even the relatively basic sciences like ecology have no basis in reality:
https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/6000/

They gave 200 analysts the same data. Not only was there variations in the results (expected) but the variation was so great that the conclusions can't be ...