http://elfs.livejournal.com/1350981.html

Slacktivist quotes and elaborates on a cogent point about the above and similar phrases, and what they imply about some evangelicals' thought processes.

http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/121/11/1771

Short piece. Good point. We have to be willing to embrace our ignorance in order to increase our knowledge.

http://www.geekpress.com/2006/09/excellent-list-of-logical-fallaciesad.html

Slightly different version of a puzzle class I've seen before. Worth the time to think about, if you enjoy that sort of thing.

Followup on the Piraha and relative innumeracy

William Golding on the three grades of thinking. Those familiar with Richard Brodie's writing on Level 3 of Consciousness will recognize common ground. I don't know whether Richard had read this essay when he wrote his books--I know he'd collected ideas from a lot of sources.

The North Pole now has open water.

Clip art video loop. Neato.

languagelog shares with us several liar/truthteller puzzles in webcomic form:

Labyrinth Guards (xkcd)

Paradox Dragon (PartiallyClips)

a Gordian Knot solution to a truth-teller puzzle (Order of the Stick)

Articles this this one really piss me off. A study found a correlation between teens listening to sexually explicit music and having sex earlier. Article immediately jumps to A causes B, no consideration of other possible explanations. I hate sloppy science writing.

slcaktivist comments on a subset of the biblical inerrancy crowd, and what he thinks they're really saying.