As some of you may have noticed, Neuroskeptic has joined Discover. I am rather pleased. There will be others soon enough.
Chris Chabris has a blog. I reviewed his book The Invisible Gorilla a few years back. Here's one thing I would say about Chabris: I read him very closely, because he is very careful. And I've been doing so since the late 1990s, when I first encountered his writing.
Ruling Islamists, Under Attack, Reject Blame for Tunisia’s Woes. Tunisia was, in my pinion, the Arab Spring's first best hope.
Paper: Men and Women Are From Earth: Examining the Latent Structure of Gender. Most people who believe that there are differences between groups, who are not totally stupid, don't conjecture that they are categorical and dichotomous classes. Men are taller than women in a pragmatic sense does no entail that all men are taller than women.
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