Does anyone have a #Google #Wave invite they could send my way? # Is it me or is the Swiss ban on minarets batshit crazy (not to mention racist) ? # Quote of the day from Skeptics Guide to the Universe: There has never been a double-blind controlled study on the eficacy of parachutes # [...]

Potholer54, a YouTuber I really like for his ‘Made Easy’ series, has done a great video showing what those hacked climate change emails are actually about.

Featuring: My Gay Straight Wedding (0:37) by Salim Fadhley; 50 for 10: Support The Guardian (7:19) by Jon Treadway; Drugs and Steroids (14:40) by Owen Duffy; and Simon Singh: The Movie (22:14) by Crispian Jago and the Pod Delusion Players

There are a few interesting things to come out of Barack Obama’s speech today on Afghanistan. I may return to them later, but from a partisan point of view, this caught my eye: Most of all, I know that this decision asks even more of you — a military that, along with your families, has [...]