FYI October 22, 2019

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On This Day

451 – The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted.
The Chalcedonian Definition (also called the Chalcedonian Creed) was adopted at the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451. Chalcedon was an early centre of Christianity located in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). The council was the fourth of the Ecumenical Councils that are accepted by Chalcedonian churches which include the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and most Protestant churches. It was the first council not to be recognised by any Oriental Orthodox church; these churches may be classified as non-Chalcedonian.

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Born On This Day

1897 – Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (d. 1958)
Marjorie Flack (22 October 1897 – August 29, 1958)[1][2] was an American artist and writer of children’s picture books. Flack was born in Greenport, Long Island, New York in 1897.[3] She was best known for The Story about Ping (1933), illustrated by Kurt Wiese, popularized by Captain Kangaroo,[1] and for her stories of an insatiably curious Scottish terrier named Angus, who was actually her dog. Her first marriage was to artist Karl Larsson; she later married poet William Rose Benét.

Her book Angus Lost was featured prominently in the movie Ask the Dust (2006), starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek, in which Farrell’s character teaches Hayek’s character, a Mexican, to read English using Flack’s book.

Marjorie Flack’s grandson, Tim Barnum, and his wife, Darlene Enix-Barnum, currently sponsor an annual creative writing award at Anne Arundel Community College. The award, called The Marjorie Flack Award for Fiction, consists of a $250 prize for the best short story or children’s storybook written by a current AACC student.

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FYI

By Steve Pokin, Springfield News-Leader: Pokin Around: Eugene Gilbreath, World War II paratrooper, dies at 94; ‘He was pure class’
 
 
 
 
By Steve Pokin, Springfield News-Leader: Pokin Around: Who needs a raise when you can have a byline? A brief history of bylines
 
 
 
 
By Darran Simon and Sheena Jones, CNN: An African American security guard fired after he asked a student to not call him the n-word is ‘back’
 
 
 
 
By The Associated Press: A mob lynching of 4 black sharecroppers in 1946 is focus of court battle over grand jury secrecy The young black sharecroppers were being driven along a rural road when they were stopped by a white mob beside the Apalachee River, just over 50 miles east of Atlanta.
 
 
 
 
One bullet.
By CBSAP: A Colorado mother said her daughter had a terminal illness. She’s now accused of her murder.
 
 
 
 
By Jordan Rimpela, Grassroots Motorsports: Lemons Announces Rally, Concours d’Lemons and Australia/New Zealand Dates
 
 
 
 
The Rural Blog: Weekly editor-publisher, one of several speakers at Nov. 15 workshop on Covering Substance Abuse and Recovery, tells why and how she covers it, and why you should too; County-level map shows estimates of rural food insecurity; New Yorkers offer bills to revamp, raise rural funding, create Rural Future Corps to send youth to rural areas, maybe stay and more ->
 
 
 
 
Little House Big Alaska: 100 Things You Can do to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
 
 
 
 
Kings River Life: George the Giant’s Strange Museum of Oddities and Wonder—Year 2
 
 
 
 
Webneel: Color Pop Visual Delight Creative Advertising Photography Ideas By Tim Tadder
 
 
 
 
Open Culture: Found: A Long Lost Chapter from the World’s Oldest Novel, the 11th-Century Japanese Classic, The Tale of Genji; The First Faked Photograph (1840); The Story of Ziggy Stardust Gets Chronicled in a New Graphic Novel, Featuring a Forward by Neil Gaiman and more ->
 
 
 
 
Chuck Wendig Terrible Minds: Sharp Rock, Soft Pillow: The Balance Of Self-Care And Tough Love
 
 
 
 

Zat Rana:
Here is the new essay of the week:

How Your Identity Makes the World a Worse Place – The self is an individual experience; an identity is a shared label. Most people who are attached to an identity limit the agency of the self, which I argue has its root in the fear of pain. Thoughts on why what most people think of as selflessness is usually selfishness (Pocket).

Here is another piece that I wrote:

Is Success a Product of Luck or Agency? – If the laws of physics deem something to be possible in the future, the only constraint to any kind of success is knowledge. Here I touch on how knowledge is earned through both luck and agency (Pocket).

A quote that I’ve been pondering:

“It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness… When it is their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.” – Eric Hoffer

A book that I’ve been enjoying:

A General Theory of Love – This is an interdisciplinary study of love. I’d vaguely understood the science of parent-children relationships and how they shape the way we connect with others, but the focus on how the limbic brain synchronizes people’s nervous systems was fresh and fascinating. I liked it more than I thought I would.

An idea that I’ve been playing with:

Most superficialities people strive for are useful but not interesting. Money, power, prestige all have value. It’s not immoral to pursue them. In many cases, it may even be important. But when these things are pursued as ends, you sacrifice your natural, inner curiosity, not realizing until it’s too late. Pursuing interestingness is more fun.

An interesting question to think about:

How many opinions do you accept simply because you fear saying “I don’t know”?

As always, thoughts and criticisms are more than welcome, too.
Talk soon,
Zat Rana
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Ideas

By Kevin Byrne: Zombie Attack: How to Create a Zombie Horde

 
 
 
 
By When Geeks Craft: Skyrim Chillrend Prop Sword Made of Epoxy Resin
 
 

Recipes

By In The Kitchen With Matt: White Pasta Sauce
 
 
By mikeasaurus: Raw Meat Rice Krispies
 
 
By glennederveen: Easy 2 Ingredient Candied Orange
 
 
By RCEM: Far From Home Pineapple Lumps