Doctrine vs Faith

Doctrine vs Faith:

by Zoë Pollock
When questioned about Mormonism's stance on interracial marriage, Romney said:

This gentleman wanted to talk about the doctrines of my religion. I’ll talk about the practices of my faith.

Joanna Brooks supports Romney's explanation:

For Romney, “doctrines” versus “practices” is a perfectly workable distinction, one that reflects the pragmatic core of modern Mormonism as well as the rather fluid and uneven state of its theology.

Mormonism has no professional clergy, no theological-scholarly corps. There is no regularly recited doctrinal creed. For well over a hundred years the tradition has been conveyed by word-of-mouth in thousands of lay-taught Sunday School classes and around kitchen tables and campfires. A correlated, cradle-to-grave curriculum was developed in the 1950s, but beyond central tenets of what Mormons might call “the gospel”—faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism; the inspired origins of the LDS Church and Mormon scripture; the eternal significance of families—Mormonism remains a theological “jungle,” as one eminent LDS scholar put it.

CPU DB: Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements

CPU DB: Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements:



CowboyRobot writes "Stanford's CPU DB project (cpudb.stanford.edu) is like an open IMDB for microprocessors. Processors have come a long way from the Intel 4004 in 1971, with a clock speed of 740KHz, and CPU DB shows the details of where and when the gains have occured. More importantly, by looking at hundreds of processors over decades, researchers are able to separate the effect of technology scaling from improvements in say, software. The public is encouraged to contribute to the project."

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Week in gaming: PS4 on x86? Whither American gaming arcades?

Week in gaming: PS4 on x86? Whither American gaming arcades?:







An x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry: The next-generation PlayStation 4 will use an AMD x86 processor and AMD's Southern Islands GPU according to rumors this week. The next-generation Xbox is also rumored to use Southern Islands. Both rumors are plausible—but if true, they mean that the next-generation console market is going to be very different from the current one.

What ever happened to the American arcade?: Why do video arcades continue to prosper and flourish in Japan while struggling on life support in most other countries? We talked to one of the men behind a new documentary about the Japanese arcade scene to find out.





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Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup:



hondo77 writes "Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health '...have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, imidacloprid.' This follows recently-reported studies also linked the disorder to neonicotinoid pesticides. What is really interesting is the link to when the disorder started appearing, 2006. 'That mechanism? High-fructose corn syrup. Many bee-keepers have turned to high-fructose corn syrup to feed their bees, which the researchers say did not imperil bees until U.S. corn began to be sprayed with imidacloprid in 2004-2005. A year later was the first outbreak of Colony Collapse Disorder.'"

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Mike Capps: Epic Games has a PC-exclusive game in the works

Mike Capps: Epic Games has a PC-exclusive game in the works:

Gears of War and Fortnite dev Epic Games is getting back to its roots with a PC-exclusive project, creative lead Cliff Bleszinski and president Mike Capps announced today during a PAX East panel. "We might be working on a PC-only title," Capps teased, before Bleszinski picked up where he left off: "Let me say that again: we are working on a PC game."

The panel is still going on, but we'll be sure to chat to the Epic folks as soon as it's over.

Update: Epic Games prez Mike Capps told us after the panel that the unannounced PC project is currently underway, and that the current plans are to keep the game exclusive to the PC platform. Unsurprisingly, he wouldn't tell us anything else.

Mike Capps: Epic Games has a PC-exclusive game in the works originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In my pile

In my pile:
Jonathan Schlefer, The Assumptions Economists Make.
Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent, by Edward Luce.   Here is his recent essay, related to the book.
Carl H. Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities.
Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles.
Chris Mooney, The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science — and Reality.
Non-Google digital library in the works, connected with Robert Darnton.

Add Wings to a High Chair to Prevent Food Spills [Parenting]

Add Wings to a High Chair to Prevent Food Spills [Parenting]:

If you're a parent of small children you know all too well how happy they are to drop food while sitting in a high chair. If you're lucky it will drop in front of them and land on the tray, but it seems like a lot of food is dropped on the left and right sides. To help prevent this install high chair "wings" by modifying placemats to fit the sides of your high chair. More »