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Comment: Sergeant Bales’s Shame and Ours : The New Yorker

Blog: Dilbert.com Blog: The War on Parents

Six Ideas for Saving Bay Area Transit | SPUR – San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association

Blog: Wired Science: ‘Bird Man’ Hoaxster Comes Clean on Dutch Television

YouTube: Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

Twitter: @CSNBaggs

CSNBaggs Lincecum not happy w/fastball. Said his balls were at his waist and he wants them closer to the knees. I told him to wait a few decades.

Soccer: Passing Location Data – Arctic Ice Hockey

How successful passes are at different spots on the field.

Researcher’s Findings in the Amazon Pit Him Against Noam Chomsky

Blog: Wired Science » Frontal Cortex: Cultivating Genius

A Neuroscientist’s Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain: Scientific American

“Yet for many mental disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia, a clear and consistent pathology of the brain has not been found. Why? Researchers have conjectured that the individual neurons are healthy, but they are connected with each other in an abnormal pattern. Unfortunately, such “miswirings” or “connectopathies” have remained merely hypothetical, because our technologies for mapping neural connections have been too primitive.”

Quote from Tumblr

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

The connection between fan and inmate behavior – Grantland

Bill James

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What makes a great leader?

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What is the single strongest predictor of IQ?

New like on tumblr: bronxbanter

Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War – By Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy

Is Christianism Breeding Atheists? – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast

So Christianity in America, as Ross Douthat’s excellent forthcoming book explains, is undermined by both the political temptation and degeneracy on the evangelical right and the failure of mainline Protestantism to advance a Christianity that is both at ease with modernity but also determined to transcend its false gods of money, celebrity, and power, and to require more from its adherents.

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: Should we blame the diabetes epidemic on lightbulbs?

Blog: Wired Science: Man Successfully Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings

High-tech Sweden edges closer to becoming cashless society – The Washington Post