I have to be a real employee today (sucks) so posting will be light until I can return to my idle ways of glaring at students and dreaming that they installed a retractable roof and an open bar in my lab. It’s really beautiful here today.

In the mean time- for your reading pleasure

Salon has a fantastic interview with Karen Armstorng called Going Beyond God.

Very often people hear about God at about the same time as they’re learning about Santa Claus. And their ideas about Santa Claus mature and change in time, but their idea of God remains infantile.

From the NY Times: Government whistleblowers are dealt a giant blow by the Supreme Court

The LA Times looks at the power of charisma

More later.