Tensegrities

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Wow, these are interesting, and at least to me, counter-intuitive.

“A new study finds that only 1 percent (my emphasis) of U.S. religious congregations go out of existence each year, “which is among the lowest mortality rates ever observed for any type of organization,” according to an article to be published in the June issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.”

“A “surprising fact” is that mainline churches tend to have lower closure rates than evangelical churches do. He sees an inverse correlation: the fewer churches that close, the more the denomination declines; the more churches that close, the more the denomination grows.”

Here’s a moment of U2 bliss.

A reprise of numbers from a recent Pew report notes that nearly all teens access the Internet. There are differences by race, class, and so on.