Peter Hurford’s summary of his beliefs, which links to a lot of his interesting essays. I should do myself one of these, I reckon. (tags: religionbeliefphilosophyepistemologyscience)
If you drive at the average speed of the traffic and leave a gap in front of you, you can alleviate traffic jams, apparently. (tags: trafficwavescarsdriving)
An American Christian on why they’re losing their youth. Obviously, they’re not going to say "because it’s all lies", but I don’t think an atheist has to support the idea that all de-converts thought very hard about it and left on rational grounds. (tags: religionchristianityde-conversionatheism)
Jo and Kevin recap a course they did a couple of years ago, which has some of the same material they taught in Cambridge recently, but in a Charleston context. (tags: dancingcharlestonlindy)
"The amazing influence of unconscious cues is among the most fascinating discoveries of our time—that is, if it’s true." Attempts to replicate some of the classic experiments in psychological priming have failed. Interesting article about the role of reputations in science (as well as about priming). (tags: primingpsychologyscience)
Nice song, cool lindy in the video (almost all lead and followed apparently, there’s no choreography apart from one tiny bit) illustrating that it’s not all about the aerials. (tags: musiclindylindyhopdance)