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March
03: Zodiac (3 comments)
04: Update (0 comments)
04: Metaphor and Simile (5 comments)
06: Complexity and God (3 comments)
08: Philosophy of Mind (2 comments)
14: Borat (1 comments)
14: Qualia (0 comments)
18: 300 (3 comments)
19: More on 300 (4 comments)
23: Simplicity of Political Messages (1 comments)
23: Babel (3 comments)
23: The Golden Compass (1 comments)
April
07: Grindhouse (3 comments)
15: Vonnegut RIP (3 comments)
May
15: Sharpton and Hitchens Debate God (2 comments)
26: Whose Freedom? (3 comments)
27: Creation Museum Opens (3 comments)
27: Political Use of Fear (4 comments)
28: Introduction to Evolution (1 comments)
June
15: How the Mind Works (2 comments)
16: Knocked Up (3 comments)
18: Emotions and Cognition (1 comments)
19: Wikipedianism (6 comments)
20: Derek the Harsh (7 comments)
22: Peace and Platitudes (0 comments)
22: A Little Too Honest (1 comments)
30: Atheism and Discrimination (2 comments)
July
03: Hitchens Says Morality is Absolute and Innate (2 comments)
09: Lions for Lambs (1 comments)
09: Midsummer Movie Recap (2 comments)
09: Ron Paul (1 comments)
10: Secular Value System (2 comments)
10: SVS: Introduction (3 comments)
11: SVS: Truth (What Is It?) (0 comments)
12: The Evolution of Homosexuality (2 comments)
13: SVS: Truth (How to Acquire It) (1 comments)
15: SVS: Truth (What It Means to Value It) (1 comments)
16: SVS: Structure (What Is It?) (0 comments)
17: SVS: Structure (What It Means to Value It) (3 comments)
18: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2 comments)
19: SVS: Freedom (What Is It?) (4 comments)
20: Wikipedia Cured My Hiccups (1 comments)
20: SVS: Freedom (What It Means To Value It) (0 comments)
20: Evaluating the SVS So Far (3 comments)
22: The Economics of Magic (4 comments)
22: SVS: What About Happiness? (0 comments)
24: SVS: Aren't You Just a Secular Humanist? (2 comments)
25: SVS: Buddhism (3 comments)
26: Conservatism and Church and State (2 comments)
30: SVS: Objectivism (1 comments)
30: Atheism and Faith (0 comments)
31: Off to Nashville (2 comments)
August
06: CogSci 2007: Day One (0 comments)
07: CogSci 2007: Day Two (0 comments)
08: CogSci 2007: Day Three (1 comments)
08: Minimum Description Length (4 comments)
08: Lucid Dreaming (1 comments)
10: How Would We Know If Aliens Were Talking To Us? (1 comments)
12: Comprehensive Exams (2 comments)
17: Hitchens @ Google (6 comments)
18: Science and Limitations (3 comments)
21: Done with Comps (1 comments)
25: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (12 comments)
27: Non-belief in the US: Scientists and the General Public (0 comments)
28: What Do You Do When You Have Everything? (2 comments)
29: Religion = Science? (0 comments)
31: The Role of the Documentarian (2 comments)
September
02: My Take on the Whole Larry Craig Thing (4 comments)
02: Farm Aid (1 comments)
03: The Day the Earth Stood Still (0 comments)
04: The Exorcist (3 comments)
06: Apologies to Subscribers (1 comments)
06: Fred Thompson (1 comments)
07: The Neocortex (2 comments)
07: Comprehensive Exams (2 comments)
08: Mos Def and Cornel West on Real Time (3 comments)
10: Liberal and Conservative Brains (3 comments)
10: Happier and Healthier? (0 comments)
11: The Neocortex: The Cortical Minicolumn (0 comments)
11: Kathy Griffin, Blasphemer (6 comments)
12: The Neocortex: Prediction (5 comments)
13: Charity and Misrepresentation: A Thought Experiment (2 comments)
14: The Electoral College in California (4 comments)
14: Truth Trumps Happiness (4 comments)
16: Lucy Tours US (0 comments)
16: Kenny vs. The Pedophiles (6 comments)
17: Hillary Clinton's Iraq War Vote (2 comments)
17: The Neocortex: Modeling (2 comments)
19: Google Products (1 comments)
19: The Neocortex: Encoding (0 comments)
20: The Sherri Shepherd Award (9 comments)
21: The Neocortex: Learning and Development (2 comments)
21: The Neocortex Compilation (1 comments)
21: Why Understanding Evolution is Important (9 comments)
22: The Jena Six (3 comments)
23: Following Every Rule in the Bible (4 comments)
24: Encephalon 32 (1 comments)
25: What I'm Reading (0 comments)
25: Secular Value System: Compilation (1 comments)
26: Peanut Butter and Bananas: The Atheist's Double Nightmare (7 comments)
28: Infantile Amnesia (3 comments)
28: Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan Debate (1 comments)
29: McCain Pandering to the Religious (3 comments)
October
01: Linden on Religion and Science (2 comments)
02: Real Time with Bill Maher (4 comments)
02: McCain Taking Flak (3 comments)
04: What Shapes Your Values? (0 comments)
04: Sam Harris on Atheism (13 comments)
05: LibraryThing.com (2 comments)
08: See...Playing Video Games is Good For You (2 comments)
08: Atheism and Imagination (3 comments)
09: Prediction and the Perception of Time (3 comments)
10: South Park on Richard Dawkins (1 comments)
11: Should Gore Win the Nobel? (9 comments)
11: Learning, Search, and Optimization (0 comments)
11: What Would a Soundless Language Be Like? (2 comments)
12: God is Not Great (5 comments)
13: Linguistic Frames of Reference (0 comments)
15: Protecting a White America (3 comments)
15: Well That's a Little Freaky (7 comments)
15: The Counterintuitive Nature of Evolution (2 comments)
17: Handedness (Pawedness?) in Animals (4 comments)
18: Michael Clayton (1 comments)
18: Dr. Racist, I Presume? (2 comments)
19: Erasing Memories (0 comments)
19: Hitchcock was a Crank (3 comments)
21: Slinging Horseshit, or Assessing the Signal to Noise Ratio in Language (2 comments)
21: Let's Go Nuclear (5 comments)
22: D'Souza on Atheism (3 comments)
23: Editing Wikipedia (3 comments)
23: Bobby Jindal on Atheism (2 comments)
24: Lucid Dreaming Revisited (2 comments)
25: Marjoe (4 comments)
25: Dammit, Google...Index Meh! (5 comments)
25: How to Decide Between Religions (5 comments)
26: Oscillating Optical Illusions (0 comments)
26: Editing Wikipedia Redux (3 comments)
28: Prioritizing Threats (6 comments)
30: The First Amendment vs. The First Commandment (1 comments)
November
01: A Moment of Non-Silence for Moments of Silence (4 comments)
01: What Dalrymple Doesn't See (0 comments)
01: Why are races always run in a counterclockwise direction? (1 comments)
01: Which parts of the human body could you design better? (13 comments)
04: American Gangster (1 comments)
05: Driver's Licenses? (6 comments)
07: Pinker's Stuff of Thought (1 comments)
08: Women are Racist (9 comments)
08: The DARPA Urban Challenge (0 comments)
08: Criss Angel vs. Uri Gellar and Jim Callahan (3 comments)
09: Carbon Offsets and Littering (5 comments)
09: Abduction vs. Falsification (1 comments)
09: Sam Harris at Beyond Belief Last Year (4 comments)
11: The Ethics of Sokaling (1 comments)
11: Linguistic Determinism (0 comments)
13: Scalzi on the Creation Museum (2 comments)
14: Are Our Heads Getting Bigger? (4 comments)
15: Brokeback Mountain (4 comments)
15: The Netflix Prize (0 comments)
16: The Democratic Debate (4 comments)
16: Using the First Person Singular in Science (1 comments)
18: Beowulf (4 comments)
19: Amazon's Kindle, or How to Waste 400+ Bucks (7 comments)
20: Coining New Words (5 comments)
20: Who Cares if Theories are Scientific? (3 comments)
21: Happy Thanksgiving (2 comments)
24: No Plot For Old Men (or Anybody, Really) (3 comments)
24: Internal Alarm Clocks (2 comments)
26: Writing Characters More Intelligent Than You (5 comments)
26: Correlation, Causality, and Neural Nets (2 comments)
27: The Artist/Consumer Contract (8 comments)
28: What's the Difference Between Kissing and Fucking? (4 comments)
28: Angier vs. Wilson on Religion (2 comments)
29: Effort is More Important Than Intelligence (1 comments)
29: The CNN/YouTube Republican Debate (8 comments)
December
01: Haidt Gets It Wrong (Again) (0 comments)
02: Hawkins Lecture at Rensselaer (0 comments)
03: God Personally Makes Every Snowflake (2 comments)
03: Conservapedia on Evolution (3 comments)
03: The Poor Ortolan (or, what the heck is wrong with French people?) (7 comments)
04: The Golden Compass and Atheism (1 comments)
04: Is Atheism Scientific? (10 comments)
04: Young Chimps Better at Memory Task Than Humans (3 comments)
04: Occam's Razor (8 comments)
05: Sick (3 comments)
06: Romney's Speech (5 comments)
07: Reductionism (13 comments)
07: MLK and hate crime laws (3 comments)
08: Blood Doping and the Common Cold (0 comments)
08: The Golden Compass (The Movie) (7 comments)
09: Survey: Taboo Language (4 comments)
10: Richard Dawkins on BBC's Have Your Say (2 comments)
11: Recent Philip Pullman Interview (7 comments)
12: Investigating Psi...Sigh (0 comments)
13: Scientific Imagery (0 comments)
13: "Under God" Challenged Legally Again (1 comments)
14: Google's Knol (1 comments)
14: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (5 comments)
15: I Am Legend (2 comments)
15: Taboo Word Politeness Survey: Results (0 comments)
16: The Four Horsemen (1 comments)
17: Volitional Waking (0 comments)
17: Jumper (0 comments)
18: Ron Paul Doesn't Believe in Evolution (0 comments)
18: Paul Davies: Science and Faith (2 comments)
19: Michael Shermer on Belief (3 comments)
19: Priming Altruism (1 comments)
19: Patricia Churchland's Review of The Stuff of Thought (1 comments)
20: Borders Bookstores Need Sensitivity Training (3 comments)
20: Randomness, Complexity, and All That (4 comments)
21: Ridiculing Televangelists (2 comments)
21: Blockbuster, How I Hate Thee (6 comments)
22: Human Children Better At Aping Than Apes (0 comments)
22: Playing God (5 comments)
23: Illusory Motion (1 comments)
23: Stuff of Thought Compilation (0 comments)
28: Battlestar Galactica (1 comments)
28: John Haught Interview (1 comments)
28: Douglas Adams on Religion (1 comments)
28: Douglas and Martin on the Neocortex (0 comments)
28: Global Warming Skepticism (0 comments)
29: Carl Sagan on Charlie Rose (1996) (0 comments)
29: Does Evolution Favor Complexity? (3 comments)
31: Evolving Winged Mice (2 comments)
31: Genetic Encoding for Big Brains (1 comments)
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