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Weekend Reads 8/27/16

You Have Never Actually Eaten Mexican Food

In other words, the very foods that have come to characterize contemporary Mexican-American fare—cheese, flour tortillas, beef, cane sugar—didn't exist in America before the Europeans. And unfortunately those foods are linked to the obesity, diabetes, and cancer epidemics plaguing Mexican-American communities today.

What Happens When Christian Schools use Secular Science Texts?

The primary motivation of my study was to try to collect empirical data on the effect on students’ faith as a result of using secular science textbooks in a Christian school setting. While it was challenging to isolate variables and demonstrate any causal linkage, I wanted to at least demonstrate that textbooks do not harm.…

Contrary to assumptions by young-earth creationists that teaching evolution is a "slippery slope that erodes all other Christian beliefs", I’ve demonstrated, at least preliminarily, that really allowing students to engage with science can strengthen and deepen their faith.

The 2016 Election Is About Dividing Up The Pie

Trump’s unrequited love for EPI might seem like another petty irony in a campaign full of them, but it hints at something larger about how Trump has scrambled the usual economic battle lines of American politics. The 2016 race, more than any other in recent memory, has focused not on how to accelerate economic growth but on how that growth should be distributed.

Hidden animal optical illusion - can you spot it?

This was a poster used by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Washington DC to advocate awareness of endangered species. In the lower right, you can see the text "They can disappear" which, of course, isn't just referring to the transient image of the panda on the poster. The panda itself is an endangered species, and also coincidentally the WWF's logo.

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