All posts (most recent at the top):

• Super-Abridged Bible: Song of Songs
• Conflict Minerals and Kony2012: Some Parallels
• Friday Links (11-May-12)
• People Believe a LOT of Nonsense on Evolution, Creationism, Religion
• Super-Abridged Bible: Isaiah
• Restore Traditional Soviet Values!
• Anarchism Becomes More Viable
• Friday Links (27-Apr-12)
• Travels in Kyrgyzstan (Politics/Governance)
• Travels in Kyrgyzstan (Corruption)
• Friday Links (13-Apr-12)
• Travels in Kyrgyzstan (Religion)
• Travels in Kyrgyzstan (Culture/Identity)
• Friday Links (30-Mar-12)
• Travels in Kyrgyzstan (Movement of People & Ideas)
• Travels in Kyrgyzstan (Economy)
• Friday Links (16-Mar-12)
• Travels in Kyrgyzstan (Places/Sights)
• Travels in Kyrgyzstan (General Info)
• Friday Links (2-Mar-12)
• Edge 2012 Question: What is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant or Beautiful Explanation?
• Going Travelling — Again!
• Does Sex Addiction Exist?
• Defences of the Sex Addiction Test
• Friday Links (17-Feb-12)
• The Sex Addiction Test
• The Center for “Healthy” Sex…
• Charities and Overheads
• Thoughts on Jourdan Anderson’s 1865 Letter
• Friday Links (3-Feb-12)
• Is This Science Literacy?
• Docos On North Korea (Part 2: Famines, Labour, Energy)
• Super-Abridged Bible: The 12 Minor Prophets (Part 2)
• Docos On North Korea (Part 1: The Tourist Trail)
• Friday Links (Wikipedia Edition)
• Super-Abridged Bible: The 12 Minor Prophets (Part 1)
• What I’ve Seen and Understood in the Camps
• “Newspeak” and Diluting Orwell’s Message
• On Attitudes To Rich People’s Spending
• Friday Links (6-Jan-12)
• Hyper-Religiousity or Mental Illness?
• How Loaded Can A Question Get?
• 2011 Curious Keywords
• Friday Links (23-Dec-11)
• Traffic Deaths: Perception vs Reality
• North Korea: The Issue Is Still Food
• Marrying Your Rapist
• Assholocracy: A Great New Word
• First World Problems
• Friday Links (Online Dating Edition)
• Third World Redux
• The Gods Belief Scale Examined
• Defining Theist, Atheist, Agnostic etc, Redux
• An Agnostic Speaks
• Friday Links (25-11-11)
• Separation of Shul and State
• Recommended: Manboobz
• Behaviourism and Animal Behaviour
• Recommended: Cracked.com Lists
• Dancing Squids and Human Judgement
• Recommended: GiveWell
• You Might Be a Central Asian Dictator If…
• Recommended: Jewish Philosopher
• Interesting Stuff: North Korea’s Homepage
• Recommended: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
• The Optical Illusion Analogy
• Recommended: LessWrong
• Steiner-Waldorf Education
• Recommended: OKCupid’s OKTrends Blog
• Biodynamics: Another Trojan Horse
• Recommended: Vi Hart
• The Novella Principle
• Recommended: Toki Pona
• Interesting Stuff: Strom Thurmond
• Recommended: SMBC Comics
• Interesting Stuff: Enclaves and Exclaves 2
• Recommended: NonStampCollector
• Interesting Stuff: Enclaves and Exclaves 1
• Recommended: Philosophy Bro
• Quick Blog Update
• Friday Links (26-Aug-11)
• Can Maths be Ideological?
• Interesting Stuff: The Association of Dead People
• Interesting Stuff: Sokal the Second
• Samantha Smith, Andropov and Boycotts
• The Karamoja Effect
• Friday Links (12-Aug-11)
• The CIA, Vaccines and the Knobe Effect
• E-reader Evangelism
• The Logistical Lesson of the Norwegian Massacre
• On “Using” Tragedies to Advance “Your Agenda”
• Friday Links (29-Jul-11)
• Five Misconceptions About Judaism
• On Disagreements, Debates and Flamewars
• The Placebo Effect Revisited
• Me and My “Forefathers”
• Friday Links (15-Jul-11)
• Big Endians and Little Endians
• Classic Novels as Children’s Books
• Time Flies Like An Arrow; Fruit Flies Like A Banana
• On Losing an “Idol”
• Downcasts
• The Cell Press
• Friday Links (1-Jul-11)
• Which is Worse: North Korea or a Russian Prison?
• The Problem With “Slut”
• Super-Abridged Bible: 2 Kings
• Super-Abridged Bible: 1 Kings
• Friday Links (17-Jun-11)
• Super-Abridged Bible: 2 Samuel
• Super-Abridged Bible: 1 Samuel
• The Good Old Days
• The Super-Abridged Bible: Judges
• Lonely Planet’s Turkey Problem
• Super-Abridged Bible: Joshua
• What is the most important invention in the past 2000 years?
• Monday Links (30-5-11)
• A Sniff Test For Moral Theories
• Interesting Stuff: Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi
• Friday Links (20-May-11)
• US Presidential Speech Reading Levels
• Once Upon A Time In…?
• The Motivations of Suicide Bombers
• Free Will and Editing Fiction
• Friday Links (6-May-11)
• The Relationship Between Genius and Crankery
• More on Marginal Actions
• Against Atomic Theory
• But Is It Morality? But Is It Consciousness?
• 8 Question World Knowledge Quiz
• Friday Links (22-Apr-11)
• Washing Machines, Global Warming, Development
• Tide Goes In, Tide Goes Out — The Real Story
• But Who Will We Follow?
• The Hostile Media Effect: Israel, Palestine & Beyond
• Born and Raised in a Concentration Camp
• The Last Circle of Hell
• But Mum, Don’t You Love Lenin?!
• The World’s Most Famous Poem?
• Fri Links (8-Apr-11)
• How to Play the Lottery
• Enthusiasm for Gadgets, Poverty
• Isaac Asimov and Malthus?
• India’s Free School Lunch Program – 140 Million Kids Served Daily
• The Story of Babel
• Friday Links (25-Mar-11)
• Felix Salmon Article: A Comment Clusterfuck
• Does Compassion Have A Place In Philanthropy?
• Japan vs Haiti: Why The Disparity?
• Japan Earthquake vs Haiti Earthquake
• Friday Links (11-Mar-11)
• Interesting Stuff: Yellow River
• Incest Post Comments Revisited
• Torah Problems, Rabbinic Solutions (Part 3)
• Friday Links (25-Feb-11)
• Torah Problems, Rabbinic Solutions (Part 2)
• Torah Problems, Rabbinic Solutions (Part 1)
• Token Actions vs Real Actions
• Super Abridged Bible: Torah Wrapup
• Friday Links (11-Feb-11)
• Super-Abridged Bible: Deuteronomy
• Super-Abridged Bible: Numbers
• Friday Links (28-Jan-11)
• Introducing the Book of Numbers
• Super-Abridged Bible: Leviticus
• Friday Links (14-Jan-11)
• Super-Abridged Bible: Exodus
• Post-Deconversion Feelings (Religion/Communism)
• Super-Abridged Bible: Genesis
• The Super-Abridged Bible Project
• Friday Links (NYE Edition)
• Diet and Medical Advice in Orthodox Texts
• Why Not Eat Insects?
• More Human Foibleness
• Friday Links (17-Dec-10)
• Averages
• Another List of 100 Books
• Women’s Intuition
• Friday Links (3-Dec-10)
• Kitzur Shulchan Aruch: The Start
• Who Voted For LGBT Executions?
• I’ll Be Back In a Jiffy
• Science and Philosophy Index
• Evolution Denial vs Religious Proofs
• Four Famines (Take 2)
• Friday Links (19-Nov-10)
• The Perfect Scam
• Smoking and Religion in Indonesia
• Friday Links (5-Nov-10)
• Folk Evolution
• Mindblowing Facts
• More Loaded “Questions For Atheists”
• My Religion’s Sex-Positive!
• Friday Links (22-Oct-10)
• Baby Limbs and Theodicies
• The “Dumbing Down” of Judaism
• Bible Censorship in Judaism
• Scriptura pro Publica
• Friday Links (8-Oct-10)
• No Shitting On The Sabbath!
• Quran Memorisation, Anyone?
• Blasphemy Day 2010
• Banned Books Week
• Friday Links (24-Sep-10)
• The Atheist 22 Question Challenge
• Google Suggest Screws Up Again
• What Price Subconscious Bias?
• Another Visualisation Exercise
• The Billion Dollar Chart: Depressing And Hopeful
• Friday Links (10-Sep-10)
• Interesting Stuff: Juarez
• Democrat vs Republican Women
• The Lens Through Which We See People
• Friday Links (27-Aug-10)
• Recommended Podcasts
• In Defence of Podcasts
• Tax Returns and Loss Aversion
• Friday Links (13-Aug-10)
• What Atheists Can Learn from the LGBT Movement
• Tongs, Used To Make Tongs
• There’s No Such Thing As A Loophole/Technicality
• Manufactroversy of Manufactroversies
• Empathy That Isn’t (1 Sam 25)
• Interesting Stuff: Henry VIII’s Six Articles
• What I Believe: Superquick Summary
• Child Survival is the New Green
• Friday Links (30-Jul-10)
• More on Everybody Draw Holocaust Day
• More Problems With Free
• Shredded Garments and Phallic Feet (1Sam 24)
• The Stuff Of Awe
• The Curious Incident of the French Steamcleaner
• Intrinsically Hilarious Phrases
• Friday Links (16-Jul-10)
• Blogging the Bible: Teraphim
• The Power Of Defaults
• Chinese Characters Prove Truth Of Bible?
• Interesting Stuff: Vittles!
• Phrases That Make Me Lose It
• Friday Links (2-Jul-10)
• More Sopranos Moments (1Sam 22-23)
• Everybody Draw Holocaust Day
• Interesting Stuff: Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
• We’re Screwed
• 2010 World Map: GDP vs Health
• Against Judeo Christianism
• The Most Important 23 Pages You’ll Ever Read
• Advice From The Book Of Samuel (1 Sam 20-21)
• Interesting Stuff: The Travelling Hyena-Taming Fighting Butchers of Nigeria
• Friday Links (18-Jun-10)
• Skepticism About Charities: Retraction, Apology and Penance
• What Would Cows Actually Prefer?
• You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
• A 5 Min Challenge To All Readers
• Obligatory Flotilla Post
• Friday Links (4-Jun-10)
• Doctors Offering Ritual FGM “Nicks”: Harm Minimisation or Hippocratic Oathbreaking?
• You’re A Solipsist?!
• 80 Killed In Pakistan Mosque Attack
• David’s Great Escape (1Sam 19)
• Bystander Effect Meets Slut Shaming
• There Is No [Stan] Hope
• A Chilling Dystopia
• Australian Customs Now Asking If You’re Bringing Porn Into Australia
• Friday Links (21-May-10)
• Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
• When Cancer Is Forgotten
• The Intrigue Begins (1Sam 18)
• Facebook, Privacy, The Problem With Free — And All That Jazz
• Some Design!
• David! Slays!! Goliath!!! (1Sam 16-17)
• If There’s No God, What’s The Point?
• Friday Links (7-May-10)
• Human, All Too Human
• How Does A Conservationist Turn Into A Thug?
• Is It OK To Clone Yourself?
• Has The World Gone To Hell?
• Friday Links (23-Apr-10)
• In Praise of Stupid Warning Signs, Against Darwin Awards
• 7 Fascinating Brain Disorders
• More on Amalek (Deut 25)
• Genocide Is Mandatory: (1Sam 15)
• Has The Catholic Church Doomed Itself?
• Friday Links (9-Apr-10)
• A Tetris Nerd’s Mecca, AKA Solution To The Latest XKCD
• The Bible and Terrorism
• Quantum Entanglement and Gaia Theory
• Friday Links (26-Mar-10)
• Ada Lovelace’s Mistake
• Global Atheist Convention – Sunday Wrapup
• Global Atheist Convention – Saturday Wrapup
• Global Atheist Convention – Friday Wrapup
• Thursday Links (11-Mar-10)
• Bynum Stands Up To The Experts
• Jonathan Against the Philistines (1Sam 13-14)
• Anatomy of a Moral Disagreement
• Friday Links (26-Feb-10)
• Are Moral Statements Arbitrary?
• Logic Sociopaths and Morality Sociopaths
• God vs a god vs gods
• Friday Links (12-Feb-10)
• Revilo vs Chomsky
• Tidbits Of Woo
• Saul Makes a Boo-Boo (1Sam 13)
• Does Anybody Actually Give A Shit About A Conflict With A Death Toll Approaching The Holocaust’s Happening As We Speak?
• The Brutality of the Biblical World (1Sam 11-12)
• Friday Links (29-Jan-10)
• What is an Atheist?
• A Real Resurrection
• Post-Stalinist Dirty Laundry (Part 3)
• Saul Becomes King (1Sam 9-10)
• Friday Links (15-Jan-10)
• Creationist “Theory” of Mind: The New Frontier
• The Problem With Kings (1Sam 7-8)
• Living on Borrowed Time
• Monday Links (4-Jan-10)
• 2009 Keywords
• Vegetarianism and Occultism
• Indiana Jones Was Right! (1Samuel 5-6)
• The Emperor’s New Mind
• A Curmudgeon’s Downfall (1Samuel 3-4)
• Saturday Links (19-Dec-09)
• How Positive Thinking Ruins the World
• Post-Stalinist Dirty Laundry (Part 2)
• Tale of a Phone
• Those Rascally Priest-Kids (1Samuel 2)
• Witch Children of Nigeria
• Friday Links (4-Dec-09)
• A Real Biblical Marriage (1Samuel 1)
• Post-Stalinist Dirty Laundry (Part 1)
• Ridiculous Pamphlet #277
• Laughing At Death
• My Religion’s Not a Religion
• Friday Links (20-Nov-09)
• Science and Skepticism in the Bible (Judges 6, 1Kings 18)
• Job vs God (Job 38-42)
• Milking Near Death Experiences For Fun and Profit
• Eating Your Scientific Greens
• Elihu’s Diatribe (Job 32-37)
• Friday Links (6-Nov-09)
• CS Lewis, Morality & Intuition as a Scientific Tool
• Galileo Verdict
• Those Sinful, Lustful Eyes (Job 31)
• The Retrial of Galileo
• The Trial of Galileo
• Friday Links (23-Oct-09)
• Creationist Fossil Attack!
• Arguing For God’s Existence From Objective Morality
• World Food Day
• How the Bible Rides Our Animal Nature (Job 26-30)
• First vs Third World
• Friday Links (9-Oct-09)
• Mere Sexuality
• Changes I’d Make to US Culture
• You Are Less Than Dust (Job 25)
• Blasphemy Day
• Dr Laura and Biological Mistakes
• A Typical Job Application
• The ReBrook Gambit
• The Tale of the Bad Workplace (Job 23-24)
• Everything You Know About Columbine Is Wrong
• Carnival of the Godless #125
• Cult of Personality and Religion
• Pass the Cockroach Please!
• Two Major WTFs (Job 22)
• An Exercise in Credibility
• Racism From the Inside
• Synesthesia or Ode To Being Human
• Comforting Others & Good Poetry (Job 18-21)
• The Argument from Game Design
• The Problem of Innateness
• Is There More To What We See?
• Reading Objectively and Translation Dishonesty (Job 12-17)
• Our Saucy Medieval Heritage
• Fun With Email
• Job’s Friends Become Assholish (Chap 8-11)
• Job At Warp Speed (Chap 6-7)
• Will The Institution Change?
• What’s Unique About the Holocaust?
• One Law to Rule Them All
• The Opening Arguments Begin (Job 3-5)
• Branding Bias
• Against Vigilantism
• As Flies To Wanton Boys (Job 1-2)
• The Gospel of Doubt
• Milgram, Rape & Silence
• No True Scotsman and Labelling “True” Religions
• Afghanistan, Land of Multiculturalism
• Introducing Conservapedia
• In Which I’m Shocked
• Softening the Scriptural Blow (Num 5)
• The Sotah Passage (Num 5)
• Pro-Family and Anti-Family
• More on Cognitive Dissonance
• Bloggers Unite: The Importance of Food
• Genetic Engineering Gets Biblical (Gen 30)
• Optimism About Deborah 13
• Keeping Questionable Company
• How Unconditional Love Fails (Gen 22)
• The Binding of Isaac & the Confused Angel (Gen 22)
• Cultural Stockholm Syndrome?
• The Earth at Night
• Spiky Penises and Sexual Pessimism
• King David in just 9 Verses (Psalm 3)
• The Byzantine Generals’ Dilemma
• The Valour of Housewifery (Prov 31)
• Inertia as Brute Fact
• Transsexuality in Shia Islam
• Nature Has No Human Face
• The Real Placebo Effect
• Spreading The Three World Religions
• Stoning in Islam
• Improving the Latest Evolution Disclaimer
• Rewriting History Books
• Killing for Inner Peace
• Brute Facts vs Facts Needing Explanation
• The Ideology of Passports
• Stoning in Judaism
• Jesus + Sword
• Putting a Price on Human Life
• Logic is Fallible
• Logic Is Awesome
• Curiosities
• Sins
• Bottom Up Progress
• Defending Cynicism
• Four Kinds of Progress
• Populate or Perish Insanity (Part 2)
• Populate or Perish Insanity (Part 1)
• Humanist Symposium #29
• Will Death End?
• Will War End?
• You Love Our Music But You Hate Our Guts
• Modern Saints and Sinners
• Relativism and Children Buried Alive
• Consumer Goods & Complicity Chains
• Congo War & Broken Windows
• A Pulitzer For Lying About Mass Murder
• LRA: The Genocide We Missed
• Sexual Ethics: Marriage
• Sexual Ethics: Celibacy
• Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity
• Sexual Ethics: Fetishes
• Sexual Ethics: Bestiality
• Sexual Ethics: Consensual Incest
• Sexual Ethics: Necrophilia & Organ Donations
• Sexual Ethics: Pedophilia
• Moral Harm, Moral Disgust
• Pro-Bible Atheism
• Religion and Cognitive Dissonance
• Who’s There? (Natural Animism)
• The Rabbis Don’t Want You To Know
• Legislating Facts & Holocaust Denial
• Tanach vs Old Testament
• The Tale of the Enormous Speeding Ticket
• Pacifist Religions
• Debunking Myths: A Peaceful Hinduism
• Blog Day 08
• Domestic Animals Tamed Us
• Good of the Species
• Nature’s Stinginess
• Evolution Doesn’t Care About YOU
• Noah’s Ark and Evolution
• Interesting Stuff: Aliens Among Us
• Dissecting Nature’s Benevolence
• Bisexual Agnosticism
• 10 Ways Nature Thrashes Human Chauvinism
• A Creationist Connundrum
• The Time of My Eternal Life!
• Recent Milestones in Spam History
• Why the UN Should be Disbanded
• Does Religion Provide Comfort to those Suffering?
• Wishful Thinking: Some True Examples
• Homosexuality, Choice and Dreaded Dark Overlords
• A Loving Tribute
• The Case for Hunting
• Using Brain to Study Brain
• The Stork Theory and Knowledge
• Is Our Moral Sense Lopsided?
• Freedom and Herding Cats
• Cranks: A Brief Field Guide (Part 2)
• Cranks: A Brief Field Guide (Part 1)
• The Dark Side of Population Control
• Is Israel a Failed State? Musings on its 60th
• What Our Swear Words Say About Us (Part 2)
• Baron in the Trees
• What Our Swear Words Say About Us (Part 1)
• Is The World Getting More Violent?
• Mysticism and Violence
• Are Humans Still Evolving? Probably Not
• The Immorality of Forgiving Genocide
• An Intuitive Monty Hall?
• What Was Galileo’s Trial About?
• Debunking Mystiques: Indigenous People
• Sex vs Violence
• In Defence of Purim
• Debunking Mystiques: Tibet
• Debunking Mystiques: Celibacy
• Disproving Christianity (Short Version)
• Turtles All The Way Down
• The Flat Earth Myth Revisited