ISIS and the Lonely Young American - The New York Times The NYT has a story about radical Muslims attempting to convert an American Christian and convince her to travel to join them in Syria, all done via the Internet, mainly Twitter and Skype.
(tags: isis islam internet twitter religion radicalisation) Start-up Costs: ‘Silicon Valley,’ ‘Halt and ( Read more... )

Cause And Effect: The Revolutionary New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart - The Physics arXiv Blog - Medium Correlation is causation, sort of.
(tags: statistics causality arxiv noise mathematics) Why IS liberal Protestantism dying, anyway? Religions/denominations which are stricter in their requirements for adherents actually do better.
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