Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 51 (December 2012)

Sacred Treasure

• Eddie Arthur has provided some important updated stats on Bible Translation.
• An interesting response to voting in a presidential election
• Barnabas Piper on 7 things a kind wants from his pastor dad – really helpful stuff here

• David Wenham has frequently worked on this issue – this is a good overview of Paul getting Jesus right
• Tim Keller on the Counterintuitive Calvin

Topical Treasure

• Rather amazing Infographic of Nobel Prizes (right)
• Is China more democratic than the West? VERY stimulating piece by Martin Jacques
• Interesting: Demolishing 5 myths about Europe’s decline
• Some great US Election Infographics
• Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s great music critic, gives a provocative but challenging history of LGBT in the USA
• Have you signed the No More Page 3 petition yet?
• And while on those lines, some important body image revolutionary photos
• Soweto life: a microcosm of the new South Africa
• I WILL conform (see below)
• A pretty cool Prezi giving an overview of the US presidential election

Quirky Treasure

• A life-sized dolls-house in Saskatchewan! (see right)
• Daily routines of great writers
• Fun for Holmes devotees and others: the fictional view of Scotland Yard
• The beauty of the microscopic
• Some very surprising historical photographs
• If you’re needing a bit of a trip – check out this multitrack Bb experiment 
• Fabulous top 100 space photos from the European Southern Observatory
• I love this – communicating the natural world through architecture

Addendum: 007 Treasure

And because there seems to be so much 007-related stuff, here’s a compilation of some of the most quirky

• Giles Coren on the reactionary sexism of Skyfall
• Mark Greene on the story of 2 sons
• Frank Jacob in Foreign Policy why Bond is a sissy because he never goes to the real trouble spots
• Some great infographics on Bond (for those that way inclined)