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from aeon
Moneylending has been taboo for most of human history. So how did usury stop being a sin and become respectable finance?
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from Anglican Communion News Service
Dr Christopher Wells: I spent the week before last introducing seminarians to St. Thomas Aquinas as a “spiritual master,” whose manner of teaching the faith remains both lucid and accessible nearly 750 years on. Is this amazing? Not really — if God is alive and speaks to us in his Son, in whom the community of the Church subsists by the Spirit. Our faith is mostly not new and exceeds our control, since it follows from God’s initiation and providential fulfillment.
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from BBC News (UK)
Hackers breached at least a dozen US power plants in attacks in May and June, US media report, citing intelligence officials. The targets included the Wolf Creek nuclear facility in Kansas, according to several reports.
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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
A body language expert told the BBC what she thought of the interactions between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin during their highly anticipated meeting Friday.
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) says that he believes an attack by North Korea on U.S. soil could be imminent, and much sooner than some may expect. Appearing on the Friday airing of CNN’s “The Lead With Jake Tapper,” Coons warned that North Korea could have the capability to launch an effective and devastating attack as early as 2019.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The war drums are beating again, this time for the Korean peninsula. And if a conflict occurs, no one believes it would be a cakewalk. Total casualties almost certainly would be in the hundreds of thousands; the destruction throughout highly industrialized South Korea would be unimaginable. It is a sequel no sane person wants to see. If policymakers are so worried about a North Korean nuclear attack, the easy answer is to withdraw U.S. forces from the Korean peninsula.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Elon Musk's big battery brings reality crashing into a post-truth world
For months, politicians and fossil fuel industry have lied about the viability of renewables. Now Tesla’s big battery in South Australia will prove them wrong. Elon Musk’s agreement to build the world’s largest battery for South Australia isn’t just an extraordinary technological breakthrough that signs coal’s death warrant. It’s potentially a game changer in the way we do politics, reinserting the importance of basic reality into a debate which has been bereft of it for too long.
Elon Musk's big battery brings reality crashing into a post-truth world
For months, politicians and fossil fuel industry have lied about the viability of renewables. Now Tesla’s big battery in South Australia will prove them wrong. Elon Musk’s agreement to build the world’s largest battery for South Australia isn’t just an extraordinary technological breakthrough that signs coal’s death warrant. It’s potentially a game changer in the way we do politics, reinserting the importance of basic reality into a debate which has been bereft of it for too long.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
The Questionable Economics of Foreign Aid
Strong institutions and good policy - not foreign aid - will lift Africans from poverty.
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from Ideapod
Internet Company
Why do we fall in love? It’s not an easy question to answer. So, what explains why at some point in our life we experience such an intense craving to be with one particular person? Our drive towards love comes from three primary needs all operting at the same time.... One is the sex drive: the craving for sexual gratification. W.H. Auden called it an ‘intolerable neural itch,’ and indeed, that’s what it is. It keeps bothering you a little bit, like being hungry. The second of these three brain systems is romantic love: that elation, obsession of early love. And the third brain system is attachment: that sense of calm and security you can feel for a long-term partner.
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from The Living Church
THE PAST NO PARADISE: RETURNING TO THE INNOCENT CURATE
Fr. John Mason Lock, with an appreciative note on The Innocent Curate, and a plea to read its take on TEC.
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THE PAST NO PARADISE: RETURNING TO THE INNOCENT CURATE
Fr. John Mason Lock, with an appreciative note on The Innocent Curate, and a plea to read its take on TEC.
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from New York Times
Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money
Lingering uncertainty about the fate of the Affordable Care Act has spurred the California legislature to consider adoption of a statewide single-payer health care system. Discussions of the California measure have stalled, however, in the wake of preliminary estimates pegging the cost of the program as greater than the entire state government budget. Similar cost concerns derailed single-payer proposals in Colorado and Vermont. Voters need to understand that this cost objection is specious. That’s because, as experience in many countries has demonstrated, the total cost of providing health coverage under the single-payer approach is actually substantially lower than under the current system in the United States. It is a bedrock economic principle that if we can find a way to do something more efficiently, it’s possible for everyone to come out ahead.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Washington Examiner
Trump should confidently ignore climate lectures from Angela Merkel
The G-20 summit, which begins today in Hamburg, will be President Trump's first. He must face up to and try to resolve many critical issues as he meets with the world's leaders. People will watch especially carefully as he meets with Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping. We hope his meetings are fruitful and that he is appropriately tough on or friendly toward his counterparts. But we also hope he completely ignores the lectures and sneering he will likely get from European leaders over the American withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.
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