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Twitter Links The Mastery of Non-Mastery
There are two types of anthropologists: One models himself on the scientist, treating the world as his laboratory, people as his raw data. He…

April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments
Twitter Links Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd
Despite the declining salience of divisions among religious groups, the boundary between believers and nonbelievers in America remains strong. This article examines the limits…

March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments
Twitter Links All Language Is Murder
Americans love people who kill people. We don’t want to say it that way, and we don’t want to be killed ourselves (most of…

December 14 2011, 3:50am | Comments
Link Innovation Starvation
SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer)…

October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments
Link Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death…
It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for…

April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments
Link Clovis People Weren’t First in Americas
Archaeologists and other scientists report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that excavations show hunter-gatherers were living at the Buttermilk Creek site and making projectile points, blades, choppers and…

March 24 2011, 4:00pm | Comments
Link Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
FOR DECADES in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art -…

November 1 2010, 3:57pm | Comments
Link All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben
Radio receives little critical attention. Of the various methods for communicating ideas and emotions—books, newspapers, visual art, music, film, television, the Web—radio may be the least discussed, debated, understood. This…

October 28 2010, 3:50am | Comments
Link The Pleasures of Imagination
How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. The most common voluntary activity is not eating, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. It is not socializing with…

June 1 2010, 3:54am | Comments
Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are…

January 8 2010, 10:51am | Comments
Link How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture…

August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments
Link Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss -…
This is the whole of the experimental film, It Felt Like a Kiss. It was the basis of the show [Adam Curtis] did in Manchester with Punchdrunk. The show may…

July 27 2009, 5:52pm | Comments
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June 23 2009, 2:47am | Comments
Link Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature."…

January 20 2009, 12:40pm | Comments

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