Julia R Migliore
Thoughts from Eugenia Cheng's Beyond Infinity Historical Christianity holds that God is infinite in all ways. God is infinitely powerful, infinitely loving, and infinitely good. God has infinite knowledge, infinite wisdom, and infinite patience. God demonstrates infinite wrath against the sin that has marred his creation, and infinite grace towards those who put their faith …
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In the United States, master's and doctoral programs have a lot of overlapping requirements. Whether they showed up with a master's already or not, a Ph.D. student will typically complete all of the master's degree requirements in the beginning stages of their own degree. This ensures the student possesses the relevant knowledge when they reach …
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Words can take on different connotations and even meanings in different spaces. Right now, you and I have the ability to communicate with each other because we have agreed that certain words have certain meanings. When I say, "cloud," you know that I am talking about a white or grey, fluffy-looking mass of water vapor …
Have you found yourself witnessing a battle between "religious people" and secular ideas wondering… "How did we get here?" Or maybe you've noticed that some people (most people) have a confusing ability to hold two incompatible views simultaneously so long as they stay in different mental boxes? Both of these have their roots in the …
Scripture describes Jesus Christ as being both fully God and fully human. So, while Jesus as God the Son has existed since before the creation of the world (John 1:1-4), when little baby Jesus was conceived here on earth, he took on a physical body (Hebrews 2:17-18). Physical Body, Chemical Parts Human bodies are made …
Words can take on different connotations and even meanings in different spaces. Right now, you and I have the ability to communicate with each other because we have agreed that certain words have certain meanings. When I say, "cloud," you know that I am talking about a white or grey, fluffy-looking mass of water vapor …
Bonnie Garmus' novel Lessons in Chemistry tells the story of a confident, young female chemist named Elizabeth Zott. The book primarily takes place in the early 1960s but also slowly reveals the characters' pasts throughout. Lessons in Chemistry has become popular since its release in early 2022. A year after it came out, the waitlist …
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Universities used to be places that engaged an challenged minds... what happened? I first encountered this title when Jackie Hill Perry recommended it (either on her podcast or social media... I don't remember). I immediately put it on my reading list because even from her very short description, I knew I had seen this already. …
Scientists nickname Connexin-43 "Cx43" or sometimes "GJA1" (gap junction A1). You know how the uterus has to contract all at once during labor? Or how whole chambers of the heart need to contract together to pump blood? Cx43 is a critical protein for making that happen! Cx43 is part of the connexin family of proteins. …
Meet butyrylcholinesterase! Better known as BChE, butyrylcholinesterase was recently identified as a possible indicator of SIDS risk (scientists are not sure about this quite yet). SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) can occur in a vulnerable infant during a critical developmental period when they experience an outside stressor.* A lot of research efforts have been invested …
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