CMU’s tuition among the highest in the nation and inching forward (Trib)

There’s No Chance You Can You Beat Hoops, the Basketball Robot:  Day after day, a robotic arm at the Carnegie Science Center outshoots the best basketball players in the world (Pgh magazine)

 Justice ... GUEST Rev Josh Brown ... Pastor, Bellefield Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Oakland district of Pittsburgh

Apple supply chain braces for disruption from corona virus (Bloomberg) ... + ... How I quit my Smartphone (NYT)

God Helps Those Who Can’t Help Themselves ...GUEST Anne Kennedy ... author of “Nailed It:  365 Sarcastic Devotionals for Angry and Worn Out People” ... She blogs everyday at: Preventingrace.com  ... Anne lives in upstate NY where she mothers 6 children and lives with her husband, an Anglican priest

What I learned in my dry January (The Trib)

5 New foods that should be on your 2020 grocery list (PG)

The Great Divide in America: Hate on the Hill… GUEST Paul J. McNulty, 9th president of Grove City College ... Prior to returning to his alma mater McNulty spent over 30 yrs in Washington DC as an attorney in public service and private practice ... In 2005, the US Senate unanimously confirmed Mcnulty to the positon of Deputy Attorney General, the second in command at the US Department of Justice, and the Chief Operating Officer of the department’s 100,000 employees

All This Useless Beauty... GUEST Jessica Hooten Wilson ... associate professor of literature at John Brown Univ and the author of "Giving the Devil His Due: Flannery O’Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Walker Percy, and the Search for Influence"

A Proposed DOT Rule Could Ban Emotional Support Animals on Planes (CondeNast Traveler)