by Leroy Hurt | Sep 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...
by Leroy Hurt | Sep 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Spectator: On the whole, though, for a millennium in which religion has loomed so large, as a motive for actual war it seems to have been rather secondary. What then explains this obstinate modern conviction that religion is the...
by Leroy Hurt | Sep 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...
by Leroy Hurt | Sep 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Christianity Today: Why I Stopped Hating Christian Music | Third Culture | A Blog by Peter Chin.Key statement: “I realized something that made me have a lot more respect and compassion for people who are in the Christian music industry: they are in a...
by Leroy Hurt | Sep 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit: With Spinal Implant, Paralyzed Rats Can Walk Again | MIT Technology Review.Key statement: “…the first closed-loop control system that can really adjust leg movements in real time, despite paralysis.”
