Tangled Bank 50 turned up some nice reads, not least the self-selected “carnival of the vanities” post by James Hrynyshyn, this edition’s editor.

In Getting our act together ... not he wittily conjoins two separate ideas.

Exhibit A is the never-ending argument among scientists over the rol...

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I’m shocked.

Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found.

And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perha...

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I believe in Darwinism and evolution and biology. I believe in atheism. I believe you get one shot; the rest is dust. That’s my creed, and I’ve decided not to even bother defending it any more.

A lot of ideas have been simmering away under this one.

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From Rebecca, news of Geoffrey Chaucer's blog. As she says, one can almost read this, and right fun it is too. If life weren't quite so filled, I would linger longer, for sure.

Caused by a break. To my wrist. My right one, my writing one. It has been patched up and is supposed to be on the mend, but it may be some time before I can write at length. I can type, but it is not easy and is pretty tiring. And there is so much I wanted to say. You might almost say I have been br...

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