Here are a few links to the articles and blog posts and other things that caught my interest this week:

The Science of Mysteries: Shock, Trauma, and the First Real War at The Last Word on Nothing by Ann Finkbeiner. Ms. Finkbeiner discusses Dorothy Sayers’ novel Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club in relation to the science of wars and weaponry.

This emotionally moving short film reminded me of the movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close that I watched last weekend with Brown Bear Daughter. I want to read the book by Jonathan Safron Foer now. Artiste Daughter has already read the book and recommends it.

A world without God is a world without fear, without law, without order, without hope. —C.H. Spurgeon

My mom was right: kids need to play outside. She used to send us outdoors to play and tell us not to come back inside until suppertime. I always took a book with me.

The Easiest Way to Memorize the Bible Actually, this method works for memorizing most anything; it’s just that the Bible is the most fruitful and rewarding thing to memorize.

N.D. Wilson on The Hunger Games: Why Hunger Games Is Flawed to Its Core. I think I agree with him, and yet I enjoyed the book and the series, so what does that say about me as a reader? I think Mr. Wilson just called me a “sucker” who “really can’t read.”

Is Science Fiction Un-Christian? by Ethan Bartlett at Christ and Pop Culture is a brief, thoughtful, and fair evaluation of the science fiction genre in light of a Christian worldview. I liked what Mr. Bartlett had to say.