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from BBC News (UK)
Celtic Christianity: History of Welsh seat of learning revealed
Llantwit Major may be known today as a dormitory town for commuters into Cardiff - but it was once regarded as the cradle of Celtic Christianity. Some 1,500 years ago, Llanilltud Fawr - its name in Welsh - was known as the University of the Atlantic. Around a century before Augustine became the first Bishop of Canterbury in 590 CE, and began consolidating Christianity in Saxon "England", Llanilltud was already spreading the gospel around the Celtic world. The name stems from the first known head of the monastic university, St Illtud, in around 500 CE. However, Philip Morris, former Archdeacon of Margam, explains in his book on Llanilltud: The Story of a Celtic Christian Community that the college was possibly much older than that.
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Why Fed Bugs Really, Really Hate Gold
Judy Shelton, a Trump nominee to the Fed Board of Governors, may not have coined the excellent term "Fed bug," but she used it to delicious effect in this 2019 Financial Times interview: “People call me a goldbug, and I think, well, what does that make them? A Fed bug,” she says. Can anyone the New York Times attacks this dishonestly be all bad? For our purposes, Fed bugs are people with a faith-based belief in the power of central banks (and central bankers) to engineer economic growth using "monetary policy,"despite decades of history and current evidence to the contrary. They believe tinkering with inputs and rates and velocity and flows somehow makes us richer in terms of productivity, goods, and services. They believe in financial alchemy, as economist Nomi Prins puts it, rather than precious metals. They believe paper has value so long as government issues it and legislates its use. Most of all, they believe in technocratic control over money in the economy.
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from NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Media/News Company in New Delhi, India
When researcher Monica Gandhi began digging deeper into outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, she was struck by the extraordinarily high number of infected people who had no symptoms. During its seven-month global rampage, the coronavirus has claimed more than 700,000 lives. But Gandhi began to think the bigger mystery might be why it has left so many more practically unscathed.
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LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
Hobbled by 1,000 closures, Washington’s child care industry thrust into de facto teaching
A day after the Seattle Public Schools superintendent announced she would recommend all remote learning in the fall, Angelia Hicks-Maxie, a South Seattle child care provider, said she was “freaking out.” Hicks-Maxie, CEO of Tiny Tots Development Center, whose programs include before- and after-school care, had for months faced an onslaught of risks and changes because of COVID-19. Her enrollment plummeted by more than half as nervous parents kept their kids home. She worked to make her sites as sterile as a hospital, removing carpets, having staff wear nursing scrubs washed every night, and instituting a mask policy for staff and children 4 and up. (The state mandate starts at age 5, with exceptions for eating and outdoor time.) Staff were exhausted from constant cleaning. “Now, they have thrown this in our laps,” said Hicks-Maxie, referring to the school district announcement of remote classes. While some children will log on from home under the supervision of parents, many will need to do so from child care operations. Staffers will have whole new responsibilities: making sure children “get” to class, helping them connect by video chat, and answering questions about schoolwork directed their way. Teachers will be safe at home, Hicks-Maxie noted. She doesn’t blame them. But she said that will leave child care workers as de facto teachers — at half the pay. Many child care workers earn close to the minimum wage, though Hicks-Maxie has given her staff a 25% pandemic bonus and Fridays off.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from The Times of Israel
A new analysis of 1st Temple-era artifacts, magnetized when Babylonians torched the city, provides a way to chart the geomagnetic field – physics’ Holy Grail – and maybe save Earth. The Bible and pure science converge in a new archaeomagnetism study of a large public structure that was razed to the ground on Tisha B’Av 586 BCE during the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem. The resulting data significantly boosts geophysicists’ ability to understand the “Holy Grail” of Earth sciences — Earth’s ever-changing magnetic field.
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