Day's Headlines: Lies Begetting Lies; The Racist Noose; Invoking God and Immigration Control; Russia's Texas-Sized Talk; Shrinking When Hot; and 3D Manufacturing Gallary

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Lies Begetting Lies; The Racist Noose; Invoking God and Immigration Control; Russia's Texas-Sized Talk; Shrinking When Hot; and 3D Manufacturing Gallary

Depravity

Slippery slope: Study finds little lies lead to bigger ones sfgate

Neuroscientists at the University College London's Affective Brain Lab affectivebrain put 80 people in scenarios where they could repeatedly lie and get paid more based on the magnitude of their lies. They said they were the first to demonstrate empirically that people's lies grow bolder the more they fib.

The researchers then used brain scans to show that our mind's emotional hot spot — the amygdala — becomes desensitized or used to the growing dishonesty, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience .

While we take the (early, unverified) conclusions of physical changes in the brain with a grain of salt, the fact that ones conscience becomes desensitized (or hardened/seared) the more we intentionally sin is well attested to in the Bible. We sin naturally but the longer we do it, the "better" we get at suppressing the conscience's warning of our guilt. Just a couple examples include Ephesians 4:17-19 and 1 Timothy 4:1-3. Also consider the source of, and desire to, sin comes from the very core of who we are: Jeremiah 17:9. Finally, take to heart the dire warning of Christ of those who are known for lying (indeed, all who remain unrepentant until the end, with one possible fruit of an unrepentant heart being lying): Revelation 21:7-8

Crime

NAACP demands federal probe after noose allegedly put on black student cbsnews

[President Derrick] Johnson said the incident happened Oct. 13 near a locker room at Stone High School stone.k12.ms.us in Wiggins. The group said in a statement that officials have mishandled the situation. The NAACP said no one has been charged with a crime, and the black student’s parents have not told of any punishment for the other students involved.

Society

Church raps Austria's far-right presidential candidate for invoking God in.reuters

Austria's Protestant church criticised the far-right candidate for president on Monday for using the phrase "so help me God" on his campaign posters, saying his party's anti-immigrant stance ran against Christian principles.

I included this one because whatever you think about a politician using it, the "church's" response appears to be at least as unbiblical:

"We stand for a Biblical understanding of God, a universal God who is there for the weak, the strangers, the refugees - the opposite of what the FPO stands for."

Russia

Russia publishes image of ‘Satan 2’, the missile that could ‘wipe out Texas’ cnbc

In May this year Sputnik, a Russian publication aligned with the Kremlin, claimed the missile could carry a payload capable of wiping a landmass "the size of Texas or France".

I need a propaganda alert icon :) Take this for what it's worth at this point, also remembering it's not expected to be ready until 2018.

Research

3-D-printed structures shrink when heated news.mit.edu v

The team, led by Nicholas X. Fang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or trusses. The structures, each about the size of a sugar cube, quickly shrink when heated to about 540 degrees Fahrenheit (282 C).

3D Printing

3D printing buildings, a summary of additive manufacturing in construction 3dprintingindustry p

In this article, 3DPI has rounded up five of the best 3D printed architectural structures/concepts from across the globe today.

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