Manufactured Gods from the Third World

1. Don't. 2. Seriously, do you not have email? 3. Are you leaving a voicemail because whatever you have to say is too complicated to...

-Blog guest posts. I have a short list of blogs I read regularly, and I read them regularly because I enjoy the topics AND the unique viewpo...

Experienced an immediate (although brief) infatuation with the coffee shop guy today because I admired the enthusiasm and élan he showed in ...

I recently watched The Perfect Husband (as part of my ongoing Tim Roth infatuation) and had some thoughts about different types of "...

As part of my ongoing indignation about how female athletes are treated in the Olympics, I researched this question, and found a helpful Tim...

1. The first thought in my head after the film was that it reminded me forcefully of FernGully: The Last Rainforest , both in plot and in vi...

If you want to write, kill the magic: a book is just a bunch of writing. Anyone can write a book. It might suck or be incomprehensible, but ...

RBC has an astoundingly interesting point-by-point comparison of the (two) trials of Jesus Christ leading up to his execution (widely belie...

Via Wikipedia : reCAPTCHA supplies subscribing websites with images of words that optical character recognition software has been unable t...

Tyler Cowen and Glen Whitman think about the effects of time travel on, respectively, interest rates and immigration . The conversation sta...

Brian Moore, in a good post about us 'crazy legalizing libertarians': This might be a bit nitpicky, but I also like the abuse of th...

Eliezer Y. introduces a technique bound to make college parties much less violent (if somewhat less fun): When you are faced with an unansw...

Startup Weekend , in which a bunch of people spend one weekend building and launching a tech startup, was created here in Boulder in July 20...

There's an AP investigative report out today detailing the wide variety of pharmaceuticals to be found in the American water supply -- ...

Via Marginal Revolution , maps representing per capita distribution of Starbucks and Walmart, respectively: An interesting feature of the...

Too interesting to relegate to the link sidebar; via Wired . Excerpt, from a Brown University anthropologist: Of course there are always peo...

Oxford to Study Faith in God : University of Oxford researchers will spend nearly $4 million to study why mankind embraces God. The grant to...

First, the Board of Regents votes to accept oil-industry exec Bruce Benson as President of the University of Colorado. Here in Boulder, thi...

Several interesting bits of writing on the purpose and meaning of science fiction: Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philo...

Recent research supports what tech-savvy enviros have known for awhile now: biofuels have alot going for them -- they're cool, easy t...