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If it sounds good to you, I hope you like paying higher taxes. Unless you're rich, of course.

Lots and lots of charts showing some of the big problems with our government, economy, society, and business sector.

Here's one of the great fears of the world of medical science coming true: diseases becoming resistant to our treatments.

This is ridiculous. Especially since the original poster's quote was one of the most moral positions I've ever heard (on the issue of killing people, of course).

Wow, this is quite a surprise. This type of research is extremely interesting to me, because it shows how close we're getting to recording our vision, thoughts, and dreams - not to mention controlling computers with our minds and broadcasting thoughts to other people.

Imagine a future where people walk around with recording devices implanted in their heads, saving everything they see as video or streaming it onto the internet. Then imagine being able to review your recorded memories at a later time. That would go a long way toward fixing the problems we have with our faulty, imperfect, malleable memories. Add that to the recent findings that people are relying on computers (or smartphones) to remember things for them, and it looks like biological memory storage may one day become obsolete.

For the data junkies out there. Lots of great info on a variety of contentious topics: terrorism, abortion, evolution, marriage, climate change, the UN, and religion. The second half further separates the data according to various demographic groups.

Ok, add this to the list of "utterly brilliant ideas for advertising mediocre things".

Just like in the Soviet Union, religious thinking doesn't go away just because religion itself is suppressed. In fact, it seems that the best way to encourage religious thinking is to outlaw it, and also to make people feel more powerless.

Also, I love the phrase "faith-pimps".

The Oatmeal speaks truth, as always.

Oddly enough, the concerns of small-business owners trumpeted by politicians are really the concerns of big-business owners. Shocking.

This is really weird, and shows yet another way that new information sources (such as social media) are changing the world.

The short answer: it's complicated.

Seeing so many Republican politicians becoming overtly religious, and even staunchly Christian Dominionist (like our state shame Michele Bachmann), is quite worrying.

The concept of an American Christian Taliban is becoming less and less outlandish.

Holy crap, it's good! Apparently VERY good! Thank the infinite space panda.

The original Deus Ex is still one of my favorite games, and mostly holds up even today. The sequel was...somewhat less great. So it's nice to see that this new one is so good.

Now I just need a computer that can actually play it.