Back in February, John C. Snider, one of the co-hosts of one my favourite podcasts American Freethought, challenged the listeners to a game of scrabble via the iPhone app Words With Friends. He crushed me (twice), but it was enough to get me hooked and I have improved a lot since then!



In a recent game I tried a word, which… Continue

The Formula 1 season has not yet over but the world champion of 2009 is already known: Jenson Button. As the year before, the decision happened during the Brasilian GP in Interlagos and like last year, an Englishman finished just in 5th position to score enough points to ensure the title against a Brasilian.



Admittedly, last year it was a lot closer: Massa (a devout catholic, who steps into a prayer booth to pray before every single race) lost in the very last race in one of the last… Continue

I just found this post in the online version of one of the larger national newspapers:

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/medizin-und-psychologie/Wenn-der-Glaube-an-Gott-krank-macht/story/18499464



I could not find the original research publication - maybe somebody else can help out.

In case you cannot understag German, here my… Continue

I never liked joining random communities and usually prefer the stalkerish lurking around. I also never caught the blogger's-bug.

Oh well, here I am: yet another rational computer science major. Yet another white middle class guy. Yet another educated and thus slightly arrogant person. Yet another guy who's afraid of the growing influence of the islamic theocracies in the UN, and western christian 'untouchableness' of religion and deeply religious immigrants in western europe who are not… Continue