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Reflections Podcasts
Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 42 views • 15:55
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 20 views
He who would be a great artist must not follow low models. The artist must have a perfect model to copy; if he does not reach to it, he will reach far further than if he had an inferior model to work by. When a man once realizes his own ideal, it is all over with him. A great painter once had finished…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Writing for Psychology Today, Shainna Ali, PhD, says, “We live in an era in which communication seems simpler than times of the past. In essence, a co-worker is one email away, a friend is one text away, and a loved one is one video chat away. Although communication may be easier and faster, connection…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Major league baseball has been trying to eliminate some of the arguments from the game. One recent innovation that has reduced many contentious moments is the instant replay. A team of umpires located in a New York studio with video feeds to every big league ball park view close, contested plays review…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus has taken a toll on patients in hospitals and health care facilities because those people are isolated and cannot connect directly with their families. John Lynch experienced separation when his father, who was at a memory care unit passed away.…
Sunday School: The Christian and Technology
Shaun Sipe • Christ Covenant Church • Illustration • • 4 views • 48:31
Sunday School • Shaun Sipe
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Delta Airlines is testing a kiosk that scans the faces of passengers when they check their baggage. The machine allows passengers to bypass check-in agents because it matches the scanned picture with the image on their passports. The airline said the machines could allow them to move twice as many passengers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Why do people gossip? Nicholas DiFonzo, Professor of Psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology says “This last desire informs us of perhaps the nastiest motive in gossip, moral rationalization-that feeling of glee to learn that someone else is worse than we are. Relatively speaking, we must…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “AIVA Technologies, a Luxembourg start-up, has created AI software that composes jazz, pop, and classical music that is being used in soundtracks for films, video…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
While some found the emergence of billions of cicadas in the spring and summer of 2021 annoying, David Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, used the opportunity for man and nature to work together. While the insects swarmed all around, Rothenberg…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek writes, “As much as we like to think that it is our smarts that get us ahead, it is not everything. Our intelligence gives us ideas and instructions. But it is our ability to cooperate that actually helps us get those things done. Nothing of real value on this earth was…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge the authors write about the importance of anticipating the ways external forces can shape a company’s future. They use a hypothetical planning session of fifteen executives of a major airline at the turn of the millennium doing long-range planning until the year…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
The amount of freedom current technology allows with phones is astounding. In fact, some statistics show that people only use our smartphones to talk with others by voice 22% of the total time they spend on the devices. The same research shows that users spend almost 5 hours per day on their Smartphone,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Rebecca Northfield, writing for “Engineering and Technology” shows how a mystery can be solved through science. She explained one mystery like this: “At California’s Death Valley there are hundreds of trails from large, rough blocks of rock in the aptly named Racetrack Playa. It clearly means the stones…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a video game which they believe is helpful in treating children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The organization said the game called EndeavorRx, built by a Boston company, requires a prescription, and is designed to improve attention function…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A review of several studies published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal confirms what many parents feared about the potentially harmful impact of social media. The reviews stated the teenagers who spend less time socializing in person and have easy access to online information about suicide…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
We live in an instant world where we expect to have real-time communication with others. However, technology does not always meet our expectations. On Feb. 14, 2019 users sent well over 150,000 text messages that did not arrive until early November of 2019 due to a problem with one of Syniverse’s servers.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Researchers from the Ford Automotive Company said they giving McDonald’s coffee bean chaff new life as car parts. Chaff is the waste left over after the roasting process, and Ford researchers say it can be used to make headlight housings and other automotive components. The auto manufacturer heats the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Researchers studying the eruption of the Kilauea volcano say volcanoes reveal secrets when they rumble and new technology helps them understand future volcanic eruptions better. Scientists say looking at variations and similarities between previous eruptions and the present activity gives them insight…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Ethiopian officials said more than 350 million trees were planted in a single day as part of a tree planting campaign. Getahun Mekruia, the country’s minister of innovation and technology, said the seedlings were planted with a 12-hour period as part of a Green legacy initiative. He said they are working…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A Chinese physics professor provided traffic police with a two-page report filled with complicated equations and diagrams to prove he could not have caused a traffic accident. Police admitted they were baffled by the physics, and turned to a simpler technology. They said the professor was driving a black…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The social networking app Nextdoor has added a new feature to remind neighbors to post kind comments. The Kindness Reminder is designed to convince people from posting mean comments. The feature previews comments before posting. If the post is too much like one that’s been flagged in the past, the app…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The National Football League is employing new technology that will provide more information about the speed, location, and rotation of the football during games. The league will use Radio Frequency Identification tags (RFID) to collect the information which will likely mean even more statistics for fans…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
There is mounting evidence that time spent on Smartphones can interfere with sleep, self esteem, relationships, memory, attention span, creativity and decision making skills. New evidence suggests they may also raise levels of cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone. Cortisol is the primary fight-or…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
To celebrate Pi Day (March 14) 2019, Google employee Emma Hayuka Iwao set a new record by calculating the value of Pi to more than 31.4 trillion digits. Iwao used 25 Google Cloud virtual machines and shattered the old record of 22 trillion digits. She told reporters this was the first time cloud technology…