Raymond Tallis calls Daniel Dennett a "neuroscience groupie".

Jackie O: Not so lovely on the inside?

CNN Video: An antelope slams into a racing biker.

Darren Aronofsky's making a film about Noah? Can't wait.

Stephen Merchant chatting up a girl.

Reviews of Pinker's new book: John Gray in Prospect and Peter Singer in the New York Times.

Nick Bostrum on the Simulation Argument.

Steven Pinker on the decline of violence.

Jacob Appel has been a very busy bee.

Closeness without conflict exists only in the cemetery - Finnish proverb.

That was the week that was (with n-words and minstrels in blackface).

Who is that man always behind you?

"Bravery is by far the kindest word for stupidity" - from Sherlock: A Study In Pink

"It is an attribute of the Internet to activate in me, and maybe in all its users, a persistent sense of deferred expectancy, as if that thing that I might be looking for, that I couldn’t name but would know if I saw, were at every moment a finger tap away."

The perfect title for a book of bedtime stories.

Coca Cola advert from The Invention of Lying.

Paul Root Wolpe on the need for ethical restraint in bioengineering.

A film I would like to see.

How many friends does one need?

Can you tell an author's sex after reading a single paragraph? Take the Naipaul test to find out.

Which metropolitan area in the US has the fittest people?

Counterfeit luxury goods may serve as "gateway products" to the real thing.

For the first time in Gallup's history, a majority of Americans favour the legalisation of gay marriage.

Justin Bieber has the Hebrew letters for "Yeshua" tattooed under his arm. Who would have thought?

Thomas Kasulis on Japanese Philosophy.

Morphological symmetry appears to be related to reproductive success in many species, including humans.

Simon May on the Philosophy of Love.

"It is well known that in the males of all mammals, including man, rudimentary mammæ exist. These in several instances have become well developed, and have yielded a copious supply of milk".

Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her? (1 Corinthians 11:14-15)