Teenie Link Dump 11.30
I figure you people are getting sick of seeing me post but Cassie’s too lazy to do the NEW IMPROVED TEEN SKEPCHICK LINK DUMP so I’mma do it instead.
- The Royal Society is celebrating its 350th anniversary, and as part of the celebration it is posting a timeline including 60 of its most important research papers for free online (via BBC).
- A morbidly obese man in South Carolina who spent 8 months sitting in a recliner hoping his faith would heal a torn ACL, with encouragement from text-messages sent by a former pastor, has died (via Brother Richard).
- A study of religiosity versus general societal well-being has found a correlation between the least religious societies and the most happy societies. It’s entirely possible that societal well-being causes a decline in religiosity or vice versa but an interesting thing to ponder nonetheless (via Roy).
- Obama’s Thanksgiving proclamation makes history by not referring directly to God (via D.J. Grothe’s Facebook).
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While there was no direct mention of God, there was certainly an indirect one. But then I suppose you have to take what you can get. The thought of my country’s leader making statements that were even that religious would freak me out.
BTW, I think this is the best Thanksgiving Prayer ever: