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rot13 is... (Results) A quaint internet tradition that I quite enjoy So annoying Easy to use because I have Leet Key Vapbzcerurafvoyr I

So here's the problem: Given a well-defined group charter, how should groups make decisions? You have an issue, you've talked it over, and n

The following is slightly edited from a pitch I wrote for a general audience. I've added blog-specific content afterwards. Information

Foie gras, the delicacy made from the liver of a very fat goose (or sometimes duck), is believed to be unethical and is therefore frequently

Via Pharyngula. A recent set of studies by Gervais, Shariff, and Norenzayan tested whether public dislike of atheists was based more on di

This went over well in the xkcd logic puzzle forum (my hand was not removed), so I thought I'd try it here.  It came to me in a dream, so by

In J. Michael Straczynski's science fiction TV show Babylon 5, there's a character named Lennier. He's pretty Spock-like: he's a long-lived

In J. Michael Straczynski's science fiction TV show Babylon 5, there's a character named Lennier. He's pretty Spock-like: he's a long-lived

Yvain's 2011 Less Wrong Census/Survey is still ongoing throughout November, 2011.  If you haven't taken it, please do before reading on, or

So I did actually write it. Its first title was Rationalist Hamlet, back when it was a short fan contribution to the Alternate Parallels s