Saturday, July 04, 2009

Massimo's picks

* A nice history of the "vaccines cause autism" nonsense by "SkepDoc" Harriet Hall. A must read.

* Get ready for the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, coming up in New York City on September 12!

* Study shows largest generation gap in the US concerning values since the Vietnam War.

* Chaos is good for your brain...

* Robert Wright has written a book on the evolution of god that is likely to upset a lot of people. So you really need to read it.

6 comments:

KenG said...

There's a fairly lengthy podcast interview with Robert Wright at http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/ . It's a tad prickly at times.

I don't intend to read the book. It sounds as if Wright wrote of "higher purpose" or "transcendental reality" (etc.) when he could easily have chosen more banal terms.

perspicio said...

1st link is broken.

Massimo Pigliucci said...

Thanks, the link has been fixed.

Jeffrey Ellis said...

like the new theme!

Teleprompter said...

Massimo, it says that I can't access the full New Scientist article about how chaos drives the brain unless I have a subscription.

Massimo Pigliucci said...

Yes, I'm afraid they had the full article available for a while (the New Yorker does this also), then they put it in the archive and left the teaser out.

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