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A La Carte (3/26)

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Monday March 26, 2007

Music: C.T. has a long and interesting article about the Passion movement.

Science: Discover has several articles featuring twenty things you didn’t know about a variety of topics. How about this: “A pair of brown rats can produce as many as 2,000 descendants in a year if left to breed unchecked.” Shudder.

Books: Ray Fowler points to John Calvin lite. The Rev. William Pringle assembled his ‘One Hundred Aphorisms, Containing, Within a Narrow Compass, the Substance and Order of the Four Books of the Institutes of the Christian Religion.’” It looks like a good way of getting an overview of the Institutes.

Du Jour: An interesting look at what it will mean to be a senior as the baby boomers hit retirement.


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