Happy, Happy Birthday

...to soarhead who, in addition to his many other fine qualities, is a hell of a photographer (a fact I am reminded of every time I go to the third floor and see pictures I'm in, pictures that *don't induce crying in small children when viewed - something that can't be said for the subject of the pictures).

Confirmation Bias Are Us

I'm most of the way through reading http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore, and it is a wonder that I haven't sprained my neck with all of the vigorous nodding in agreement that I have been doing.