Somewhere Deep Down, We Still Care. Don't We?

"What it got me to thinking about, other than I'm glad I'm not a meerkat facing down a cobra, was how my own attitude toward violence and suffering has changed over the years."

FreeRice - you win, others win

"FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It starts by giving you words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level. "

Warning: Fun ahead / Safety first, yes, but today's overprotected kids need to live a little

"The wussification of American children is a relatively recent phenomenon, but a very real one."

Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus

"Thus begins an “informational cascade” as one person after another assumes that the rest can’t all be wrong. "

What is the Monkeysphere?

"What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ***-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere. " (warning: adult language, not for children or the easily offended)