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michaelshermer

  1. Hostage taker James Lee claims Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth inspired him: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38957020/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ about 18 hours ago via web
  2. Yikes! DC hostage taker was environmentalist nutter: http://web.archive.org/web/20080130051705/http://savetheplanetprotest.com/ about 18 hours ago via web
  3. Michael Behe makes his case for Intelligent Design (stay tuned for Ken Miller's rebuttal Friday): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhYYL9Y1oJE about 19 hours ago via web
  4. Institute for Creation Research concedes defeat grad school http://ncse.com/news/2010/09/icr-concedes-defeat-over-its-graduate-school-006160 about 20 hours ago via web
  5. My response to Jerry Coyne's critique of Templeton Foundation & my column on markets and morality & what I believe: http://huff.to/beKWEV 5:08 PM Aug 31st via web
  6. Download Demos Report on conspiracy mongering & its dangers (free). It's quite good: http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/thepowerofunreason 12:42 PM Aug 31st via web
  7. Free excerpt from Iain McCalman's Darwin's Armada (great read): http://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/Excerpt--DarwinsArmada.pdf 5:00 PM Aug 30th via web
  8. More Roswell UFO nonsense from a truck driver who says he drove the alien bodies (and my take on it): http://bit.ly/cLz8Da 11:32 AM Aug 30th via web
  9. Shermer debates Judge Napolitano & Robert Sirico on natural rights on Fox Business TV show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv2KvhYbXJg 9:59 AM Aug 30th via web
  10. When Scientists Sin: my SciAm column helps explain Harvard fraud story: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=when-scientists-sin 8:05 AM Aug 30th via web
  11. Jerry Coyne thinks I've gone round the bend w/my thesis on markets & morals (& ties to evil Templeton Fnd) Response TK: http://bit.ly/aGNYuT 11:07 PM Aug 29th via web
  12. Excerpt: "But to get people to be fair and generous to strangers in other tribes, we need cultural institutions, especially trade." 9:10 AM Aug 29th via web
  13. Excerpt: "We are naturally inclined to be fair and generous with our kin & kind because of genetic relatedness & reciprocal connectedness." 9:10 AM Aug 29th via web
  14. How markets & trade make people & primates more moral (Shermer article on BigQuestionsOnline.com): http://bit.ly/9hhbpA 9:09 AM Aug 29th via web
  15. Subscribe to Scientific American at original 1845 price: http://bit.ly/b9iNLM 9:38 PM Aug 28th via web
  16. Happy 165th birthday Scientific American, born Aug 28, 1845, oldest continuously published magazine in US http://www.scientificamerican.com/ 9:32 PM Aug 28th via web
  17. Get a (nearly) complete set of Skeptic magazines from my friend Chris Kostman here (59 of the 60 issues): http://tinyurl.com/26uot47 5:00 PM Aug 27th via web
  18. It's the 60th anniversary of the Pope's encyclical granting permission for a billion Catholics to accept evolution: http://bit.ly/dCCNm1 9:06 AM Aug 27th via web
  19. Mars will NOT be as big as the moon tonight! Another web hoax: http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=25355782 9:04 AM Aug 27th via web
  20. Evolutionary psychology takes a hit in Wall Street Journal today over the Marc Hauser "scientific misconduct" affair: http://bit.ly/cTMLoD 9:03 AM Aug 27th via web