Thinking Meat reflects on some the issues with science literacy, speculating on reasons why we may develop a desire for supernatural and paternalistic explanations.

In connection with this Thinking Shift made a connection to the Conservapedia billed as A Conservative Encyclopedia you can trust which competes with the Wikipedia by creating a knowledge base free of liberal thinking. It has some useful material, for example here you can discover that he earth is 6,420 (-91 / +155) years old, or from 6,329 to 6,575 years old. The year of creation would be 4416 BC (-91 / +155) years, or created between 4,325 BC to 4,571 BC.

Mind Hacks does a good job of dealing with the saccharine of The Secret (a self help film with quasi religious overtones)

Reflexions considers the role of self-organisation in disasters, and then moves on to meditation as a way of increasing our capacity to pay attention. It's good to see Steve back and actively blogging again

Issues of privacy and surveillance have xome up on several blogs recently. Patrick and Kim both have good posts. Kim has finally started her blog and its a welcome addition to my RSS feed.

Finally many people have sent me the link to this New York Times article on role of third person replay of traumatic events.