After a lengthy hiatus, the PSA o’ the Week – aka Public Service Announcement – returns with a simple message. While we may think of life two or three hundred years ago as peaceful and idyllic, the person living in 1716 or 1816 certainly had occasional stress and anxiety. (People living in 1916 definitely did.) Sometimes their stressors were life-threatening, …
Words of wisdom from Lynyrd Skynyrd
“Be a simple kind of man. Be something you love and understand.” Wise advice from today’s music therapy session. Lyrycs provided. (See what we did there?) The quote at the beginning: “Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
Church Chat
Complexity is the new simplicity. Meaning what, exactly? The sheer complexity of the natural world leads to an inescapable conclusion: the more complex a structure or event, the less likely it is to occur by chance. That’s just common sense. But when someone uses the word “unlikely” to describe evolution, just how unlikely is it? Let’s take DNA as an …