Blogaround

1. 周杰倫 Jay Chou【最偉大的作品 Greatest Works of Art】Official MV (posted July 6) New music video from Jay Chou (in Mandarin Chinese).

2. When concordance-ism eats itself (posted July 14) "And that was not allowed. Pearson came to reject a core evangelical doctrine based on his best attempt to apply our core evangelical methodology and that got him kicked out of his Pentecostal associations and banished into the outer darkness with all the other people who don’t believe in banishments into the outer darkness."

3. Immoderate (posted July 14) Here's a fun little post about how badly-designed the comment moderation filter on Patheos is. "It’s always, on some level, funny when you have to pause and think before realizing that the prudes always turn out to be much dirtier-minded than the rest of us."

4. Webb telescope shows off Jupiter in new image (posted July 18) Everything about this telescope is amazing.

5. Speaking of suicide: How institutions harm people they were made to help [content note: abuse in the medical system, discussion of suicide]

6. What does fasting tell us about the state of scientific literacy? (posted July 18) "But how was I to talk responsibly about this benefit, this personal success story, with so little academic research to back it up?"

7. The Hypocrisy of White Asexuality (posted May 27) "When you’re in a community as white-and-North-American as the asexual one, I think it’s only fair to point out that it’s sauce for the goose to expect that we devote at least a little of our hyperanalytic navel-gazing powers to reckoning with racial identity if we’re going to expect people to sit through our overly-complicated vocabulary lesson."

8. THE Domino Sudoku (posted July 11) This is a cool little puzzle. (35-minute sudoku solve video.)