Wherewith Shall it Be Salted?

Ask, and it shall be given you.

OUR Lord returns here in the Sermon on the Mount a second time to speak of prayer. The first time He had spoken of the Father who is to be found in secret, and rewards openly, and had given us the pattern prayer (Matt. vi. 5-15). Here He wants to teach us what in all Scripture is considered the chief thing in prayer: the assurance that prayer will be heard and answered. Observe how He uses word...

Knock and it shall be opened...

So It Is, So It Shall Be: Group Regularities License Children's Prescriptive Judgments.

When do descriptive regularities (what characteristics individuals have) become prescriptive norms (what characteristics individuals should have)? We examined children's (4-13 years) and adults' use of group regularities to make prescriptive judgments, employing novel groups (Hibbles and Glerks) that engaged in morally neutral behaviors (e.g., eating different kinds of berries). Participants we...

You Shall Be as Gods

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

Dissonant Synapses Shall Be Punished

Synaptic activity in the neonatal brain is often locally synchronized. How such clustering comes about is unclear. Winnubst et al. (2015) show that the refinement of synaptic connectivity is driven by the depression of synapses that are asynchronous with their neighbors.