• Michael Shermer kicks off a series of articles on “the neuroscience of chance” with a look at why we’re so bad at intuiting probability. (What are the odds? I have no idea. And neither do you.)

• Virtual Philosopher ask the Director of Education at the British Humanist Association a basic question. (“Quasi-religion” is the new “cult.”)

• Discovery News reports that some birds’ sweet songs are actually dueling duets. (“Our eggs are more fertile that your eggs!” “Nobody regurgitates food better than us!”)

• Six Pennsylvania families are suing their school districts because they want their religious indoctrination home school curricula exempted from state reporting requirements. (The final exam is just a file folder with the Old Testament pasted inside it.)

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It’s a Friday afternoon on the East Coast of Americaland. We’ve got one sunny day left until Tropical Storm Hanna starts grinding on us like a drunk guy at a dance club. Before the precipitation sends us all running to the store for the magical bread and protective milk, I thought this might be a good time for a little assessment of our progress.

It’s been about seven weeks since we hooked up the electrodes and zapped some twitching life into this long neglected webspace. We’ve added new contributors and, between the handful of us, we’ve managed to update at least once every weekday since the middle/end of July. Thanks in part to a couple of auspicious links (and an oddly large number of people Googling Mark Biltz), we’ve had over 5,000 hits, and we’re averaging about 50 readers across our various feeds.

Of course, we’re not just standing around here for our health. We want to make this an interesting experience for you as well. So here’s your chance to weigh in and let us know what you think. Likes, dislikes, burning hatreds, irrational phobias. Anything from the site design to the content to the government agents digging holes in your lawn. Hit us with it in the comments, or send an email to oskar [at symbol] suburbanpanic [dot] com.

In the spirit of honest criticism, I’m turning off all comment moderation on this post. I reserve the right to an after-the-fact purge of obvious linkwhores, but any on-topic comments will stay in.

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