The God of Independent Minds
“the God of Israel so cherishes independent-minded men and women that he himself names them Israel, meaning “will contend with God,” as a sign of his love and esteem.”

Rationally Speaking: Friendly advice to skeptics
“For many religious people, an element of faith is intertwined with their overall participatory experience. Yet the CoR mistakenly foregrounds only the faith element of religious life. What brings people back to church again and again is the participatory experience and what turns them away is a bad experience. The many people who do positively experience religious practice dismiss the CoR as ignorant (true) and not worth listening to (false). All the CoR’s other points, such as the importance of teaching evolution, are lost, shouted to the howling wind. My advice is: lay off the ‘prove there is a god’ stuff. It’s irrelevant and counterproductive.”

3quarksdaily: The Rats of War: Konrad Lorenz and the Anthropic Shift
“Lorenz’s solutions to the problems of aggression, set out so elaborately in On Aggression, are disarmingly simple… There are four solutions: Know thyself, ethologically; cathartically sublimate the aggressive (and libidinous) drives; promote international friendship; and most importantly channel of militant enthusiasm into just causes.”

An Unexpected Ass Kicking | Blog Of Impossible Things
“when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things”