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January
03: Happy New Year (4 comments)
03: Complexification in Action (1 comments)
03: Maybe the Brain Really Isn't That Complex (3 comments)
05: Reason: Fool's Gold for the Bright (0 comments)
06: Sam Harris and Rabbi David Wolpe Debate (1 comments)
07: Top and Bottom Five Movies of 2007 (1 comments)
07: Blogging About Politics (0 comments)
09: What Have You Changed Your Mind About? (3 comments)
09: Can You Analogize Anything? (4 comments)
10: Stupid On-line Political Quizzes (4 comments)
10: Is the Brain a Quantum Computer? (2 comments)
11: Huckabee's National Sales Tax (3 comments)
11: A Million Hits (4 comments)
11: Calculating God (4 comments)
14: Atonement (2 comments)
14: Pragmatics in Language (5 comments)
16: Stephen Pinker on Reason (3 comments)
16: How to Kill Your Productivity (3 comments)
17: The Orphanage (0 comments)
17: What is Science? (1 comments)
18: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (1 comments)
18: TAAH Flashback (2003): Blacks Tip Less Than Whites (1 comments)
19: No More Pullman Movies (0 comments)
20: Human Rights: From Fertilized Egg to the Grave (2 comments)
20: Cloverfield (1 comments)
21: Hierarchical Reductionism (1 comments)
21: Newborn Preference for Biological Motion (6 comments)
23: School Starts (1 comments)
24: Lying Robots...Big Deal (0 comments)
25: Mapping the Brain at the Synapse Level (1 comments)
25: Why Movie Reviewers Don't Make Good Political Commentators (5 comments)
26: Basic Concepts in Science (0 comments)
26: Deceptive Chimpanzees...Big Deal (0 comments)
28: Blogging WebApps (5 comments)
28: ResearchBlogging (1 comments)
29: Japanese Ear Picking (1 comments)
31: Why I Wouldn't Make a Good Political Pundit (3 comments)
31: Submitting Papers (5 comments)
February
01: Cuts in Movies (1 comments)
01: Jesus Camp (6 comments)
01: Are Humans "Socially Smarter" Than Other Apes? (1 comments)
02: A Whale of a Brain: Comparing Whale and Human Neuroanatomy (0 comments)
04: The Cortical Column: A Structure Without a Function (0 comments)
05: Information Theory (2 comments)
07: How To Be a Grownup Scientist (0 comments)
07: Kristof: Quit Hating on the Evangelicals (9 comments)
08: Bill Clinton in Lafayette, LA Today (3 comments)
08: I Just Called...To Say...Vote For Me (3 comments)
09: Photo Galleries of Bill Clinton's Visit (1 comments)
09: The Rise of Religiosity in Egypt (1 comments)
11: Males, Females, Variability, and Intelligence (1 comments)
12: Why Do Atheists Hate America? (9 comments)
13: Conservatives Defending Evolution (0 comments)
14: Science Valentines (3 comments)
16: The Drake Equation (2 comments)
17: Kurzweil Forgets to Carry His One (0 comments)
20: Deja Vu (1 comments)
22: Lewis Black's Nothing Sacred (11 comments)
22: Friday Poll (4 comments)
22: 10 Smartest TV Shows of All Time (5 comments)
23: Chimps Hunt With Spears (6 comments)
25: Best Picture? (2 comments)
25: Is a Genome a Computer Program? (5 comments)
26: Zee French Press (5 comments)
27: Robot Terrorists Are Going to Kill Your Children (5 comments)
28: What You Probably Don't Know About Evolution (1 comments)
28: Computers Know What You're Thinking: An fMRI Study of Common Neural Activation (1 comments)
March
02: Do Men Think About Space Better Than Women? (0 comments)
03: Neuroevolution: Building and/or Training Artificial Neural Networks with the Power of Evolution (0 comments)
05: Defining Evolution (10 comments)
05: The Blue Brain Project (0 comments)
06: Alternate I Am Legend Ending (1 comments)
08: Why Do We Have Public Education? (7 comments)
10: What is Altruism? (2 comments)
11: The Age of American Unreason (4 comments)
12: Dating People Who Believe in Astrology (3 comments)
13: What Would Be Good Evidence For God? (6 comments)
14: Neuroimaging and Mind Reading (0 comments)
18: Partial Mini Book Reviews (0 comments)
19: Big Dog Robot (3 comments)
22: Sam Harris on Barack Obama (5 comments)
22: Dawkins Attends Screening of Expelled (3 comments)
24: Do Other Animals Dream? (3 comments)
26: Excerpts of Interviews from Expelled (2 comments)
26: Chelsea's Response to the Lewinsky Affair (23 comments)
26: Learning With Spikes (0 comments)
28: The Woes of Being djames (2 comments)
31: Leisure Reading (0 comments)
31: Barack Obama on Education (10 comments)
April
02: Slate on Fixing Education in America (4 comments)
03: Visiting the Apes (6 comments)
05: Huckabee Shills for Expelled (3 comments)
07: The Ruins (3 comments)
07: Fluxx (1 comments)
07: Big Brain and Boskop Man (0 comments)
07: Elephant "Self-Portrait" (2 comments)
08: What is Alternative Medicine? (7 comments)
10: Gazzaniga on Human Brains (2 comments)
12: Plagiarism and Scientific Visualization (1 comments)
14: Your Brain is Like a Bunch of Dominos (3 comments)
15: Timing and Judgments, or What If Your Wife Just Cheated On You? (1 comments)
16: Video of Guy Trapped in Elevator for 41 Hours (2 comments)
17: Supercomputer Beats Go Master (Sort Of) (0 comments)
17: Atheists Viewed Slightly Better Than Scum (7 comments)
19: What Gobbledygook Is (2 comments)
19: The Implosion of Infocom (0 comments)
20: The Courtier's Reply (1 comments)
20: Is Islam Compatible with Democracy and Human Rights? (4 comments)
21: Building Cricket Robots (2 comments)
21: Slinging Crap is Slinging Crap (2 comments)
26: Talking to Babies (3 comments)
27: Building Gods (0 comments)
27: Cornel West and Gobbledygook (3 comments)
29: Orangutan and Chimps with Spears (2 comments)
29: Visual Pattern Fluid Intelligence Test (6 comments)
May
01: Atheists in Foxholes (1 comments)
01: How Much Can We Learn Without Feedback From the Environment? (5 comments)
02: Iron Man (5 comments)
05: Bobby Jindal for VP? (1 comments)
05: In Which I Rant About My University E-mail Account (2 comments)
06: Does Science Make Belief In God Obsolete? (1 comments)
06: Fitna the Movie (1 comments)
09: Hillary as Hitler (4 comments)
10: On Our Way to 7 Billion (2 comments)
15: Happiness and Suffering as the Basis of Morality (1 comments)
16: Whew (6 comments)
17: Holy Shit: Train Derailed and Acid Spilled (5 comments)
19: Types and Tokens (2 comments)
20: Is Nothing Something? XOR, Negative Patterning, Rats, and Neural Networks (3 comments)
20: Modularity and Mind (2 comments)
22: Wake Up and Smile (2 comments)
26: Phoenix Mars Mission (0 comments)
27: Ted Chiang's Understand (0 comments)
27: My XOR Network (2 comments)
June
03: Back From California (3 comments)
03: The Louisiana Science Education Act (6 comments)
04: IEEE on The Singularity (4 comments)
05: Tech Celeb Views on the Singularity (1 comments)
06: Speed Racer (0 comments)
06: False Rumors and Politics (1 comments)
07: Going Along to Get Along (6 comments)
09: The Candidates on Religion (7 comments)
10: Smearing Obama (23 comments)
10: Book Burning in Louisiana (6 comments)
11: Is Google Making Us Stupid? (1 comments)
12: How Not to Get Rid of the Electoral College (8 comments)
12: "Louisiana Science Education Act" Passes (2 comments)
14: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (0 comments)
14: The Somewhat Incredible Hulk (4 comments)
16: Bobby Jindal on Evolution (0 comments)
17: Anti-Christ Prevention Logic (8 comments)
17: Atheist Q&A (8 comments)
17: When We Left Earth (1 comments)
18: South Carolina and the 10 Commandments (2 comments)
18: Email The Suckers Left On Earth (2 comments)
18: Intelligent Design on Trial (1 comments)
19: Continuous vs. Discrete Across the Sciences (1 comments)
20: Reviews of Bad Movies (5 comments)
20: I Believe in Stupidity (4 comments)
23: In Which I Still Don't Understand Information Theory (4 comments)
25: Not So Deep Thoughts (2 comments)
25: Making Tabasco (0 comments)
26: The End of Science? (1 comments)
26: McCain Old Jokes (7 comments)
27: Seeding Mars (15 comments)
27: WALL-E, or Hell is Other People (0 comments)
28: Jindal Signs the "Louisiana Science Education Act" (1 comments)
28: WALL-E Negative Review Backlash (0 comments)
29: Recalling Bobby Jindal (0 comments)
30: Blogging in Parallel (2 comments)
30: Computing Beyond Turing: Jeff Hawkins Talk at UCSD (2 comments)
July
01: But, Dirty Harry is Cool (3 comments)
01: Carl Sagan on Recognizing Truth (0 comments)
01: Obama Trying to Jump the Shark (12 comments)
02: Hitchens Gets Waterboarded (14 comments)
03: Torturing Mice (2 comments)
03: Columbia Brain and Mind Symposium (0 comments)
04: Poker: Human vs. AI (1 comments)
04: Engineering Biofuels (1 comments)
04: Top 10 Reasons Why America Kicks Ass (2 comments)
05: The Straight Dope Hates All Over the Flat Tax (5 comments)
07: Jumping Ship (1 comments)
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