The Santi Report (My Version of a Drudge Report Page)

THE SANTI REPORT

LINKS WORTH EXPLORING

Below are click-through links for the curious. New links are added weekly.

• The old high way of love.
• An article on the disturbing legal history of marital rape.
• A recent Harris poll shows God belief in decline in the United States (and evolution belief up).
• With regard to the value of the humanities, show, don’t tell.
• Ben Franklin on chess.
• The NYT on the decline of student interest in humanities education.
• Edgar Allan Ho.
• The NYT on flipped schools.
• In praise of short sentences.
• The case for reading literature from the vantage of evolution.
• Daniel Dennett on Wieseltier v. Pinker.
• MOOCs are coming.
• Earliest known Michelangelo painting.
• ECCTYC conference coming to Anaheim.
• Ted Cruz has a birther problem.
• The bullshit police come to Vegas–again.
• A computer program that grades student essays.
• Exercise can help you learn.
• Donald Prothero on Stephen Meyer.
• Planets like ours may be common.
• Who is Barbara Kopple?
• Woody Allen’s best and worst movies. One critic’s opinion.
• Anxious? The New York Times series on the subject is here.
• How to write an essay.
• Online remedial college courses?
• Leon Wieseltier on the humanities.
• A new right wing conspiracy.
• Homosexuality and the Bible deconstructed.
• A Renaissance plate with Diogenes and Alexander the Great.
• Google Glass demonstrated at YouTube.
• Teach yourself how to code.
• A new documentary on Philip Roth.
• Getting a graduate degree in literature might make you crazy.
• Even millenials with Ivy League degrees are having a hard time finding work.
• Free association image tumbler.
• Walker Percy and Carl Sagan compared.
• California balances its budget.
• Looking after the sick, 4000 years ago.
• Songs inspired by books.
• As Thailand prospers, Buddhism declines.
• Earth’s recent near collision with an asteroid.
• Sean Penn as Sisyphus.
• People who live in tiny houses.
• Are science and magic twins? A new Discovery Institute film attacks what it calls “scientism.”
• Steven Pinker on writing well.
• Edward Feser on Thomas Nagel’s new book.
• One reason religion persists in the world: the God meme makes people brave.
• James Somers says: bring questions to things and write.
• Eleanor Smeal on the gender gap in electoral politics.
• A man takes it upon himself to rescue his sister from the waters of Hurricane Sandy.
• Why are there so many stupid people in the world?
• What can sustain us in our godless, internet-driven, postmodern era?
• The role of contingency in life, death, and Hurricane Sandy.
• The Stanley Kubrick exhibit will be at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) between Nov. 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.
• Joe Klein on Bibi Netanyahu and Iran.
• A meditation on flesh and class after visiting a water park.
• The editors of National Review predict that GM will go into bankruptcy in Obama’s second term (if he has one).
• Nouriel Roubini forecasts bad economic weather for the second half of 2012 and all of 2013.
• Amazon saved an author’s life.
• Zizek on the Greek crisis.
• Jonah Lehrer on daydreaming.
• Reinhold Bieber.
• Christopher Hitchens on Philip Larkin.
• Why George Bush should be prosecuted for war crimes.
• Philosophical positions boiled down to readily apprehended logos.
• Andrew Sullivan and Ross Douthat discuss the resurrection of Jesus.
• Man bites god: atheist activist converts to a liberal form of Christianity. Atheist activist’s atheist wife is surprised.
• An American rightist in moral meltdown: National Review contributing editor, John Derbyshire, offers blatantly racist advice to white parents.
• Deconstructing the “One Nation Under God” painting conservatives like.
• Art messes with your brain.
• Jonah Lehrer calls the superiority of brainstorming over the lone individual thinking a myth.
• If Dr. Moshe Vered’s analysis is correct, expect a war of a year or longer should Israel or the United States attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
• Andrew Sullivan: Obama has a long game—and he’s winning.
• Greg Scoblete questions the Iran-as-mortal-threat meme.
• The Supreme Court lets stand a lower court ruling against sectarian prayers offered to Jesus at tax supported public meetings.
• The Wall Street Journal on Israel, the US, and Iran.
• Great news: a universal flu vaccine may be available within the next couple of years.
• A NOVA slide show on the history of biowarfare.
• Robert Wright starts a blog.
• Robert Wright on Iran.
• Jerry Coyne on free will.
• C-SPAN interviews Chris Hedges for 3 hours.
• Scientific American on H5N1.
• Religiously motivated misogyny: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel try to force women to ride in the back of buses.
• More religiously motivated misogyny: In California, Protestant megachurch pastor, John MacArthur, tells his congregation, in excruciating detail, why women mustn’t ever teach or exercise authority over men in the church.
• Best cartoonist’s response to Christopher Hitchens’s death.
• The New York Times’s list of the 100 notable books for 2011.
• Ken Murray, MD, explains why doctors tend to go gently into that good night.
• Newt Gingrich is likened to an angry badger (which is, of course, an insult to angry badgers).
• Saddest book EVER.
• Nigerian Muslims and Christians agree: gays should be killed and any person who attends a gay marriage ceremony should be arrested.
• Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appoints Laurie McCallum to the state’s Labor and Industry Review Commission. With regard to workplace harassment of gays, McCallum regards it as legal.
• Steven Pinker recommends a newly released book, Winning the War on War.
• Jim Holt on thinking vs. blinking.
• Leslie Gelb thinks Iran is nothing to get too worked up over.
• The new Kurt Vonnegut biography is reviewed in the New York Times.
• Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood reflects on the genre of science fiction in a new book.
• Despite complaints from Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s office to the principal of her high school, a Kansas teen refuses to apologize for tweeting to friends that the Kansas governor “sucks.”
• Muslim medical students in Britain refuse to attend lectures on evolution.
• An American evangelical-friendly website applauds them.
• Cultivating empathy may not be the same as cultivating peace.
• The Air Force Academy builds a Stonehenge-like worship center for witches and other pagans.
• Clouds break and sunlight descends on a dead American soldier’s dog. ABC News reports the event as a potential sign from heaven.
• A rabbi says that an Orthodox Israeli soldier should face death by firing squad rather than cooperate with any military order that compels his attendance at an event in which a woman sings.
• David Carr’s reporting on Twitter and the Tribune Company is quite good.
• A Catholic priest wants to bar humanists from being chaplains in the U.S. military.
• An Intelligence Squared debate on the health of mainstream media outlets (such as the New York Times) is excellent.
• The Vice website looks interesting. Here’s the site itself, and here’s the Wikipedia article on it.