“Cheap Blood Test Could Detect Disorders in Fetus” reports on an attempt to create a blood test (rather than CVS or amniocentesis) that could detect Down syndrome, among other genetic abnormalities, very early on in pregnancies.
As readers of this blog know, I’ve been thinking recently about keeping the Sabbath and creating spaces of rest both for worship, personal restoration, and service to others (see “No Shopping on Sundays“). So an interview on PRI’s Marketplace caught my attention: “Information Overload: An Age-old Problem.” Check out this quotation in particular:
“In my family, we do something we call the “Internet Sabbath,” which has no religous meaning, it’s completely secular. But on Friday night, we unplug the household modem which serves my computer, my wife’s and our 12-year-old son’s, and it’s unplugged every weekend until Monday morning.”
“You Say God is Dead? There’s an App for That” is an article from the New York Times about the proliferation of apps that provide reasons for and against belief in God. I wonder whether these apps are yet another distraction?