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This is so effin’ awesome. Play with it yourself here, or see the demo from TED at

A photosynth collection of British sights and sites

In a letter to Nature, Sam Harris takes the journal to task for fawning over a religious book, and in general for the tactfulness, “to the point of obscurantism,” with which it treats religion

Cognitive psychology and prestidigitation…

a beautifully written response to Stanley Fish’s disdainful piece about Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens in yesterday’s Times

Harvey Fierstein op-ed

There’s still plenty of time, apparently, for me to become a father.

NJ couples find that civil unions are anything but equal to marriage

surprise, surprise… abstinence-only classes just don’t work

Larry Kramer asks the powerful question.

“Why, [Atran] wondered, did people work so hard against their preference for logical explanations to maintain two views of the world, the real and the unreal, the intuitive and the counterintuitive?”

I can stop describing myself as of a mix of English, Irish, Scot and Welsh (along with German and Dutch) ancestry, I guess, as my derivation might, in fact, simply be Iberian.

The postulated backlash against conservatives can’t come soon enough to suit me.

From Details Magazine: “Gay male bosses produce 35 to 60 percent higher levels of employee engagement, satisfaction, and morale than straight bosses.”

(I think I’m in love with Sam Harris)

Ah, even the Brits have discovered the charm of the Eichler home