10 discoveries, and other links

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• 10 discoveries that made us healthier in 2015 -- "I am perpetually on the hunt for the latest scientific insights into what we can do for better health and cognitive performance."
• Alabama chief justice defies Supreme Court gay marriage ruling, forbids clerks to issue licenses -- "Alabama’s probate courts may not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has ordered."
• Are You An Evangelical? Are You Sure? -- "...depending on the method of measurement, more than one-third of Americans are evangelical, or fewer than one-in-10 are."
• Bible Expert's Surprising Findings About Jews and Judaism Revealed in the New Testament -- "The New Testament confirms a division of thought about resurrection at that time between the Pharisees and the Sadducees...Later, rabbis noted the split in thinking. But the New Testament gives a specific time and place, bringing the discussion to life."
• English is weird -- "There is no other language, for example, that is close enough to English that we can get about half of what people are saying without training and the rest with only modest effort."
• Gun rights groups, GOP, some Democrats fighting Obama's 10-point plan for reining in guns -- "An Associated Press review shows that Obama's executive actions would have had no impact in keeping weapons from suspects in several of the deadliest incidents..."
• I’m NOT reading through the Bible in 2016 -- "It’s not that I have anything against it."
• Texas Chronicles: Galveston's Broadway Cemeteries: The people and stories behind the headstones -- "Kathleen takes us on a history tour through the islands most famous cemetery."