Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West | Reviews in History Russel Blackford reviews a book about the social history of atheism in the 20th Century in the West, looking especially at the gender differences in how interviewees expressed their reasons for leaving religion.
(tags: atheism history gender russell-blackford) The Evolution of ( Read more... )

Bit Twiddling Hacks A collection of code snippets for doing useful things (sign extension, determine whether a number is a power of two, and so on).
(tags: bit-twiddling programming algorithms c hacks twiddling) Anti-Brexit traitors outed on twitter UKIP voters in “shit thick” shocker. Also features Louise Mensch.
(tags: twitter ukip funny brexit ( Read more... )

What We Can Learn from the Paris Attacks (Without Ignoring the Elephant in the Room) Yep, this is more or less what I think.
(tags: paris terrorism islam islamism religion politics) What is emotional labor? A term that once described jobs where being friendly and cheerful was seen as part of the job has apparently been co-opted to mean “someone ( Read more... )