We think we can plan and sterilize life. But then it stops being life.

this ad showing the destruction of beautiful creative tools (& therefore a way of life) like metronomes & musical instruments reminds me of the quote “we become what we behold. We shape our tools & then our tools shape us”

how will we stay human in a threatened post human world

Very Exciting News! It seems there is a rediscovered Caravaggio that will be on display at the Prado this summer! It will be interesting to compare the Ecce Homo to the version in Genoa.

finestresullarte.info/en/news/carava…

Children should be not only permitted but invited in church, even if making noise.

They should be enjoyed at weddings as the fruit of such unions.

Our prohibitions against them means we’ve forgotten what we’re here for.

“I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.”

Jennifer Senior is a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her article about her aunt, Adele, who was institutionalized as a toddler because of an intellectual disability. Senior explores the life she could have lived:…

Today I learned about this elaborate eulogy carved into stone of a 1st c Roman husband for his wife (identity uncertain, traditionally referred to as 'Turia')
It's the longest personal document of this kind. He loved her a lot, they were married for 40 years.
Highlights: 1/

bummer that I can’t go to this by the Detroit Symphony this week.

Mahler once said “a symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”

Happy birthday Søren Kierkegaard. We can feel the flames.

when folks can’t take issue head-on directly with your argument that they don’t like (because it’s airtight and correct) they instead take jabs at your appearance. we sadly expect this.

but when it comes from other women…smh

let’s spend the next year unpacking the question posed in this piece:

“How do you make ECMO available to everybody so that you can die anywhere, anytime, and someone will be able to save you?”

and yes, our technology is outpacing our ethics #MedTwitter newyorker.com/science/annals…

I published an essay last week arguing for something very similar to this! We need to create university campuses that are conducive to good disagreement rather than acrimonious protesting and uncompromising belligerency.

happiness.hks.harvard.edu/april-2024-iss…

One more thing: build a faculty that actually has ... I know the idea is shocking ... viewpoint diversity, so students will be exposed to professors with different ideas. You don't have to discriminate in favor of conservatives to do that. All you have to do is stop…

have been trying to incorporate the academic seals of the Universities I’m visiting, in my remarks.

the academic seal of Hopkins reads “Veritas vos liberabit” —translated “the truth will set you free”

“Our review of recent rigorous studies supports much more cautious conclusions regarding the longer-term effectiveness of today’s preschool programs.”

Nothing improved our quality of life more than moving across the country to live driving distance from our parents.

Proximity to people you love is worth more than any job will ever pay you.

also, if interested, I draw on the work of St John Henry Newman in the talk. Professor Bonner and I have previously written about how Newman’s “Idea” relates to health professions education for Church Life Journal here churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/hard-…

the video from this event is now up if interested youtu.be/SLZqD7wzK4s?si…

“God invites us to imitate him as sub-creators. It’s a profound misuse of that invitation to build tools to take over our most human & relational tasks.

Offering a chatbot in lieu of a person is trading our birthright for a mess of pottage.” Leah Libresco Sargeant firstthings.com/web-exclusives…