We're in full Schlump season here. Links for you. Science:
Misunderstanding Darwin: Natural selection's secular critics get it wrong
History in the Remaking: A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution.
In which I dream of revolution
Math Shows Some Crime Hot Spots Can Be Cooled, Others Only Relocated
Time to get mad. Time to speak up.
Animal rights thugs: Researchers' children are not off limits
Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?
Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych
Other:
The Real Reason Women's Magazines Suck
Shadow Rental Market Pushing down Rents
Breakdown of the Blogosphere
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NYTimes Public Editor Declines to Recommend Retraction for Multiple Erroneous Reports on False ACORN 'Pimp' Story
In Massachusetts Elite Providers Drive Health Care Spending; What Does This Say about the Dartmouth Research? . . . Maryland's Solution. Part 1
His-Panic: Talk TV sensationalists and axe-grinding ideologues have fallen for a myth of immigrant lawlessness
Corrected link for Babies & bunnies etc
Göbekli Tepe is a fascinating mystery, but I think that Klaus Schmidt is assuming too much in what Newsweek quoted (misquoted?). Religion probably played a major role in whatever was going on at/around Göbekli Tepe, but his whole argument is based on assumptions about the carvings, the implausible lack of local settlements, and the motives/worldview of neolithic people whose society is much less well understood than nearly any other known human society.