• 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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