The 40 Best TV Theme Songs of All Time

A fun list.

The power of words

A thought provoking video.

How adoption impacts children

A powerful post by a mom whose family recently added their third child through adoption.

Why I Love Religion AND Jesus

This is excellent.



via Matthew Warner

Copying the Bible like a medieval monk

The neat story of a man who has set out to copy the Bible by hand.

Cute - man sings puppies to sleep

Stunning photos of water droplets

Wow.

The restart page

A collection of different restart screens from different computer platforms from different times.

What will books look like in the future?

Brandon Vogt excerpts some fascinating thoughts.

An interactive map about religion in different parts of the U.S.

Some interesting data.

How to have a great Monday morning

Though this post is targeted at homeschoolers, it has great tips for everyone.

Pictures of early-1900s America

A neat collection.

Top 10 New Year's Resolutions

A fun list to review for the new year.

Couple finds out they funded their own nurse's education

Neat story.

Wow - those iPhone games are really real!

Astounding footage of amazing feats

WOW!

9 astonishing facts about Amazon

Wow - Amazon's annual revenues are larger than the GDPs of half the countries in the world.

How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland Convicts

A sweet story about male prisoners who learned how to knit.

"To the mother-in-law I never got to thank..."

A touching post from Rachel Balducci.

An abortion clinic worker's conversion, and the dark side of surrogacy

An excerpt from a powerful speech by Live Action blogger Jewels Green:

Stunning aerial views of Jerusalem!

Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D from JerusalemTheMovie on Vimeo.

In case you were looking for a video of a dog in a tutu dancing the merengue...

Here you go.

Siblings recall the blessings of being raised among 17 children

An inspiring article.

via Holy Experience

100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows

Wow!

via New Advent

Risking death under huge blocks of ice - "If you can't get out, you die"

"The people of Kangiqsujuaq in Canada go to great lengths to add variety to their diet of seal meat, venturing under the sea ice during the extreme low tides of the spring equinox to gather mussels:"

Making a kids' kitchen set from an old entertainment center

Impressive!

Old vs. Middle vs. Modern English

An interesting comparison.

Beautiful - Street singers around the world singing Stand By Me

An amazing video. Definitely worth your time to watch.

Jet man flies alongside jet planes - amazing

Calculate the distance between two cities

A handy little tool.

Marvin Gaye sings the National Anthem at 1983 NBA All Star Game

Wow!

Slow motion video of an owl flying

Wow, this is amazing.

Herding cows with a remote control car

Watch your stick man come to life

A neat and impressive little game.

The world's youngest rap fan

Hilarious:

If Catholics are wrong about the Real Presence...

A thought provoking post thinking through the logical conclusions of the mainstream Christian view that Catholics are wrong about the Real Presence:

If one holds the common evangelical position on the Lord's Supper...that the evangelical position was the original doctrine taught by Christ and His Apostles, then that person must also hold that: 

- the entire Church, following the deaths of the Apostles, immediately and publicly fell into universal heresy and idolatry at the center of their beliefs and practices 

- this occurred in such a way so as to leave behind no evidence at all that any orthodox Christian had believed the true teaching of the Apostles immediately following their deaths in the most fundamental matters of doctrine and practice (unless you count gnostic heretics, and I don't think evangelicals would) 

- this universal heresy persisted for a millennium and a half, such that virtually no would-be Christian lived their faith without centering it around idolatry; every would-be saint of the first 1500 years of the faith - St Irenaeus, St Augustine, St Francis of Assisi, St Catherine of Siena, etc - was actually an idolater

- the very same people who were so deluded into Eucharistic idolatry managed to hold true faith regarding the Trinity, dual-nature of Christ, etc, even amidst widespread, violent, centuries-long opposition and persecution...

Read more here.

Battle scars on the fields

Haunting images of the battle fields of World War I, which still bear scars from the Great War.

via DarwinCatholic

When the child you sponsor finds you on Facebook

A very modern (and touching) tale of child sponsorship.

Mona Simpson's eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs

Very touching.

Could you pass a US citizenship test?

Find out here.

8 Exciting Food Markets Around the Globe

Some cool places.

A restaurant that serves caveman food

No bread, pasta or sugar: Stone Age-style restaurant serves only food that was available to our caveman ancestors.

Breakfasts from around the world

Interesting pictures of how different cultures start their days.

via New Advent

Data visualization and the Bible

Some examples of really cool data visualization charts displaying info from the Bible.

Catholics give the best parties

Some thoughts on the Catholic tradition of feasting, as well as practical tips for a great party.

Want to know how to wear a scarf?

Here are 25 ways to tie one.

20 Stunning Photos of Nature’s Rarities

The sailing stones are particularly interesting.

The life of flowers

Life of flowers from VOROBYOFF PRODUCTION on Vimeo.

World's largest model airport

Wow! Don't miss the video at the end.

A face-off with a deadly predator...that takes a surprising turn

Portraits of the Fallen

A touching story about an artist who paints portraits of fallen soldiers for their families for free.

How what you see influences what you hear

Crazy!


via the Archdiocese of Washington blog

A quick, easy way to shuck corn and get perfectly clean ears

How Weather Changed History

A collection of fascinating stories.

"Sheltering hurts when it's empty"

Mrs. Parunak has a thoughtful post in response to the backlash against "sheltering" kids from the world. The whole thing is a must-read, but here's an excerpt:

The real problem is that some conservatives are fake. They say they love Jesus, but they’re living for themselves. They’re brazenly unrepentant about being angry, power-hungry, obsessed with appearances, or addicted to lust. And all the long skirts and homemade bread in the universe can’t keep them from hurting their children because selfishness always hurts other people. 

Sheltering fails when it is empty, like a wall with nothing inside. We may admire our friends’ stately stone walls around their castles, but constructing an identical wall around a vacant lot still leaves our families exposed to the rain and cold, with nothing but weeds to eat. But we’re OK, we tell our shivering children, because we have a pretty wall. Can we blame cold and hungry people if they run away and tell the world that walls are bad? But really it wasn’t the wall. It was the vacant lot.

The Top 20 Most Common Passwords

Hopefully your online banking password isn't on the list!

10 Tallest Sand Dunes on Earth

Whoa!

History's Most Overlooked Mysteries

A list of fascinating unsolved mysteries.

How thinking styles impact faith (or vice versa?)

Some interesting data here.

I defy you to find anything more awesomely nerdy than this video

The Glucose Song:



via The Perfect Health Diet

On Bullying and Abortion and Forgiveness

A very powerful post by a former abortion clinic worker.

The past (and future) of famous logos

Interesting to see major logos throughout the decades.

What 7 negotiating tricks can we learn from FBI hostage negotiators?

Some good tips.

An amazing story of messages in a bottle

Treat yourself to watching this wonderful video (via New Advent):

Over the last two decades, Harold Hackett has sent out over 4,800 messages in a bottle from Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province along the Atlantic coastline. 

Every message asks for the finder to send a response back to Hackett, and since 1996 he has received over 3,100 responses from all over the world.

How people reacted to overhearing a couple discussing the option of abortion

Wow, an amazing video that makes me proud to be a Texan! (Contrary to popular sterotypes, it's also interesting to note that the most pushy person was the pro-choice school nurse toward the end of the video.)

5 Vintage Versions of Modern Social Media from Centuries Ago

Very interesting! An example:

Long before there was Facebook, there was the Republic of Letters — a vast and intricate network of intellectuals, linking the finest "philosophes" of the Enlightenment across national borders and language barriers. This self-defined community of writers, scholars, philosophers and other thinkers included greats like Voltaire, Leibniz, Rousseau, Linnaeus, Franklin, Newton, Diderot and many others we’ve come to see as linchpins of cultural history. Mapping the Republic of Letters is a fascinating project by a team of students and professors at Stanford, visualizing the famous intellectual correspondence of the Enlightenment, how they traveled, and how the network evolved over time.

The daredevils of Niagara Falls

Some fascinating stories of people who have gone over Niagara Falls in barrels. For example:

The infamous Bobby Leach plunged over the Falls in a steel barrel. Bobby broke both kneecaps and his jaw during his daring event. Years later while touring in New Zealand, Bobby slipped on an orange peel and died from complications due to gangrene!

Great resource for kid-friendly educational videos

Neat for adults too!

"The [Galileo] Inquisitors were not opposed to discovery..."

"They were opposed to hasty and unproven conclusions."

Boatlift from Manhattan

Inspiring and touching:



From SmartPlanet: "In nine hours, boats streaming in from all over the Northeast evacuated 500,000 people trapped on Manhattan Island by the complete shutdown of all trains and bridges in the wake of the fall of the twin towers. (Compare that with history’s second-biggest evacuation, of 339,000 soldiers and civilians from Dunkirk, in WWII, which took nine days.)"