What looks to be a good book on Anselm's ontological proof. [go!]

"My outrage," Nassim Nicholas Taleb says, "is aimed at the scientist-charlatan putting society at risk using statistical methods." He continues: "While most human thought (particularly since the enlightenment) has focused us on how to turn knowledge into decisions, my new mission is to build methods to turn lack of information, lack of understanding, and lack of 'knowledge' into decisions—how, as we will see, not to be a 'turkey'." [go!]

It always feels like my duty as a life-form to look at and appreciate pictures like this. [go!]

"Speakers invited to attend a Vatican-sponsored congress on the evolution debate will not include proponents of creationism and intelligent design, organizers said." [go!]

Take a course with The New York Times (this is what my job produces). Believe it or not, it wasn't until today that I discovered this piece of shocking evidence of the vast Zionist conspiracy: "Times" spelled backward is "semiT." [go!]

From time to time this comes up and sounds hip, though apparently only when it's just from time to time. [go!]