* Hungary and the end of the Cold War.

* Making microfluidic chips that work out of Shrinky Dinks? Genius!

* Toward a slow news movement. I’m all for that.

* I am, occasionally, rendered speechless by ignorance. Like, for example, these comments about Elie Wiesel.

* Some interesting scriptural interpretations of homosexuality. I think the Old Testament interpretations are pushing it, but there’s no doubt that some early Christian congregations did welcome gays and gay couples without condemnation. That said, the translation of “eunuch” as gay is certainly not how the early Church understood it. Just ask poor Origen.

* The cognitive benefits of arts education.