Nice work by Twitter to have live video of local press conferences and local news up top of the feed (as we wait out the slow arrival of Hurricane Florence here in Columbia). I’ve always used Twitter for live news and updates in text form, so it’s interesting to see them move more into the mobile video side of things…
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Saving Lives with Apple Watch
“I participated in the Heart Study too. Like Perlow, I forgot about it for long stretches. Iâm fortunate that I didnât receive the sort of alert Perlow did, but in September, Stanford sent me a notification that my participation in the study was ending. It turns out that over the course of 188 days, Stanford collected 1,743 heart measurements from me. Multiply that by the thousands of people in the study, and the potential the Apple Watch has for medical research is remarkable, while at the same time helping individuals like Perlow one at a time.”
How the Stanford Heart Study App Saved Jason Perlow via MacStories
I too participated in the Stanford Heart Study via the Apple Watch (my stats above). Males in my family have a history of Heart Disease and Afib, so I was nervous but eager to see if this seemingly innocuous contribution to science using my watch would catch anything. I’ve also been trying hard to “get in shape” given that I’ve just turned 40. I’ve lost 24 pounds since May and continue to try to live healthier with food and drink choices.
I was sort of relieved the day I got a notification that the study had ended. There had been no updates to contact Stanford during the study. Evidently if the Watch app detected anything that was suspicious of Afib, you were patched through to a Stanford Cardiologist via FaceTime. While that’s an amazing technological experience, I didn’t want to participate in doing so for this situation.
So, it’s amazing to read the testimony above by someone who did have the experience of catching a very deadly condition early simply because they wore an Apple Watch. The device is certainly saving my life by the daily motivation to get healthy and stay that way, and I see a bright future where conditions will be caught early by devices such as these.
Current Theme Song
“There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year.”
Great associated podcast here.
Episode 148: Faith Is a Boomerang
The Rev. Lauren Larkin joins Sam to discuss birthing pangs in Genesis, the merits of demythologizing, and Dialectical Theology in the 21st Century.
Special Guest: Lauren R.E. Larkin.
Links:
- LaurenRELarkin.com â The intersection of everyday life and theology
- SanctaColloquia (@SanctaColloquia) | Twitter
- Genesis 3
- The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch: David W. Congdon: 9781608998272: Amazon.com: Books
- The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology: David W. Congdon: 9781451487923: Amazon.com: Books
- Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer – Kindle edition by W. Travis McMaken. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
- Luther on Genesis 3
- Barth and Dialectical Theology
Episode 147: Thinking Religion Again
Ready for the next episode? Here we go! THINKING RELIGION is coming back in August đ
Starting your career at 40
I’m “here for this” as the young people say…
âWe need a new model,â Carstensen says of the current norms around career pacing. The current one âdoesnât work, because it fails to recognize all the other demands on our time. People are working full-time at the same time theyâre raising children. You never get a break. You never get to step out. You never get to refresh. . . .We go at this unsustainable pace, and then pull the plug.â
âInvisible Wire Pullersâ
Eerily familiar to the American left…
Prideful of their own higher learning and cultivation, the intellectual classes could not absorb the idea that, thanks to âinvisible wire-pullersââthe self-interested groups and individuals who believed they could manipulate the charismatic maverick for their own gainâthis uneducated âbeer-hall agitatorâ had already amassed vast support. After all, Germany was a state where the law rested on a firm foundation, where a majority in parliament was opposed to Hitler, and where every citizen believed that âhis liberty and equal rights were secured by the solemnly affirmed constitution.â
â Read on www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-its-too-late-to-stop-fascism-according-to-stefan-zweig
Oxford Classical Dictionary 5
I get it, but I still want a paper copy.
Even the concept of a âdictionaryâ is no longer the same. OCD5 exists solely online. This means that we can do a number of things.
â Read on classics.oxfordre.com/page/eicletter/letter-from-the-editor/
George Lucasâ Plan for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (Meet The Midichlorians!)
I take back every negative thing I’ve said about The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi and the treatment of cherished characters.
Yikes… midichlorians
â[The next three âStar Warsâ films] were going to get into a microbiotic world,â he told Cameron. âThereâs this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the Force.â
â Read on www.indiewire.com/2018/06/george-lucas-episode-vii-episode-ix-1201974276/
Romans 13 and American Appeals to Authority of the Government
Good read on the historical uses of Romans 13 in American history to justify obedience to the government in light of our Attorney General’s use of that text today to defend the deplorable and immoral and utterly un-Christian internment camps we’re setting up along the Mexican border for children that we’re forcibly separating children from their asylum-seeking parents…
As I wrote at my own blog, Iâm not sure we should âact as if the New Testament has any kind of authority over the religiously plural officer corps that protects a democratic republic that separates church and state.â But Pence is hardly the first prominent American to make such public use of these Christian scriptures â though what they mean has been hotly contested since even before the Republic won its independence.
â Read on www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2017/05/mike-pence-romans-13/