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Posts from ‘May, 2009’

On Atheist “Extremism”

A thoughtful response to the "extremist" whining

Hollywood Jew on the American Idol outcome

Adam Lambert too scary for the 12-year-old girls and 48-year-old housewives who vote

Gay Marriage Faces Uphill Odds in New York Senate

Only 20 (of 32 needed) are definite 'yes' votes

More bad news for antidepressants

Real-world use fares worse than controlled study

20 Most Important Philosophers of All Time?

(1) Plato; (2) Aristotle; (3) Kant; (4) Hume; (5) Descartes; (6) Socrates; (7) Wittgenstein; (8) Locke; (9) Frege; (10) Aquinas; (11) Hegel; (12) Leibniz; (13) Spinoza; (14) Mill; (15) Hobbes; (16) Augustine; (17) Marx; (18) Nietzsche; (19) Kierkegaard; (20) Rousseau

Best Visual Illusion of 2009: The Break of the Curveball

Awesome new collection of illusions

The master list of free online college courses

From universitiesandcolleges.org, via openculture.com

A history of Klingon

The made-up language, that is

Elsevier has an entire division for publishing fake “peer-reviewed” journals

Major academic publisher puts out a fake peer-reviewed journals for money

Young Americans Losing Their Religion

That's right, we're gaining…