Here we document interesting stories about productivity, forming good habits, health and investing in your community.
The fatal choking of a homeless man on the New York subway has divided opinion across the nation. A former Marine, Daniel Penny, placed Jordan Neely in a headlock after Neely reportedly menaced passengers on the train. While news reports searched for “an angle”, this seems like the terrible and tragic culmination of a number of factors. Neely… Read More Standing by to do good
The dreadful shooting deaths of three young children and three adults in Nashville has captured the attention of the America once again. As with so many other tragedies, reporting and reactions fell roughly along partisan lines. Everyone retreated to their priors with Democrats and their associated media blaming Republican’s stance on guns while GOP Reps once again pitched… Read More Equivocating evil
Queen of minimalism, Marie Kondo, admitted last week that she has “kind of given up” trying to keep her house immaculate. Kondo welcomed her third child in 2021 and says that “spending time with her children” is more important than cleaning in this season of her life. It’s nice to hear some realism when it comes to… Read More Bless this mess
A recent scientific study about scientific studies has concluded that there is not as much “disruptive” science being published lately. Authors of the study noted that while there are more papers being published today than in the 1940s, discoveries which send scientific disciplines in a brand new direction are light on the ground. An article in Nature journal pitches… Read More Blind with science
The “Twitter files” continued to drop as we here at Mad Mondays were resting up over Christmas. For those who missed it, these documents are mostly internal correspondence between Twitter execs and employees before the company was bought by Elon Musk. Musk has been releasing the documents to independent journalists who have been publishing summaries of the content. … Read More Anti-people
Mad Christian Alisha sent us a fascinating story about “Luddite teens”. The piece follows some teenagers from Brooklyn who are aiming to live life without phones. Or at least set on reducing their phone time. The Luddite Club meets together every week – rain, hail, or shine – to draw, paint, read, or enjoy nature. Logan Lane,… Read More An upside-down
Failed “Crypto King” Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested and is scheduled to be extradited from the Bahamas to the US to face charges of fraud. After recovering from the initial shock over how his multi-billion dollar company lost most of its value overnight, commentary has focused on how “effective altruism” and the philosophy of William MacAskill shaped the worldview… Read More Charity by numbers
The San Francisco Police Department provoked public backlash recently after authorities gave it the green light to use lethal remote-controlled robots. Exploding robots were to be used in rare cases such as in Dallas in 2016 where a gunman was killed using a bomb delivered by robot. We say “were” because the city has reversed its decision, calling… Read More Robocop or Minority Report?
Can we all agree that our media complex is a bit of a cesspool? After recent attacks on gay clubs, corporate media scrambled to see whether they could find the definitive piece of evidence to prove that the perpetrator is a product of the ideology of the “other side”. But, as is often the case,… Read More Lies we tell ourselves
Pastor Wolfmueller was a guest on Issues, Etc. last week and brought some comforting teaching about the conscience. He explained how our consciences are informed and shaped by the Word, human laws, our peers, and by our culture. Although family, church, and state should protect consciences, in our age this is not always the case. As Pastor Wolfmueller… Read More A good conscience
