Transhumanism

• Hofstadter on the Singularity
• Transhumanism at Anders Sandberg. Slow to load.
• Website of the late transhumanist Alexander Chislenko
• Robin Hanson -- physicist, economist, transhumanist.
• Theoretical Applied Science
• Church of Virus
• Orion's Arm -- a collaborative SF worldbuilding project, part hard SF, part Singularity extravaganza.
• Spacecraft Propulsion at Wikipedia. Along similar lines, Atomic Rockets at Project Rho.
• In defense of transhumanism

Politics and Philosophy

• Ebon Musings a collection of essays on atheism, including the Argument from Locality.
• Nicholas Humphrey on what we should tell children. Religious indoctrination analogized to female circumcision; science as the set of beliefs any reasonable person would choose for themself.
• Carvaka, the ancient Eastern wisdom of atheist materalist hedonist utilitarian social contract empiricism, from 600 B.C.
• Epicureanism, the Greek version of the same ideas, with more atoms and fig-leaf gods. Mailing list
• Fragments of Democritus, precursor to Epicurus, more scientific and perhaps more subtle, though also less preserved.
• Naturalism.org And of course the ideas live on, with possibly more elaboration and definitely more evidence.
• The Godless Website
• Quotes of Aristotle
• Pro-life women getting abortions.
• Lack of evolution in Arkansas public schools
• Viruses of the Mind by Richard Dawkins.
• Sam Harris on religion: beliefs matter; religious moderation, while politically friendly, is intellectually and theologically bankrupt; meditation and contemplation study something real about experience, and Eastern tradition is as much better at it than Western as Western medicine is better than Eastern.
• Civil liberties are part of security, by Harry Browne.
• Stability of democracies
• A better political quiz
• US Debt Clock
• Can fetuses feel pain?
• Article claiming that the sin of Sodom had nothing to do with homosexuality, but with breaching hospitality and lack of compassion. And a related article.
• Election methods
• Link to a few nice graphs of political axes.
• Someone's attempt at listing more than 2 political axes, for once. Conservative/revolutionary, liberal/autocrat, idealist/realist, equal/inequal. I don't know that I agree with it all but it's a start.

Art and Literature and SF

• Art Renewal, an ornery traditionalist art gallery. My comments.
• Jane Austen site.
• Beyond my own fansites, some favored SF authors include C. J. Cherryh, Iain M. Banks, Terry Pratchett, Jo Walton.
• Lurker's Guide to Babylon-5. I used to be really into it, and it's still part of my friend-culture.

Education

• Socratic method used to teach binary arithmetic and place-value concepts to third graders. Seems to have worked amazingly well (on an un-"gifted" class).
• Skeptics Society
• Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
• Eve Tushnet on "socialization" and home schooling.
• The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto. Goes with my John Holt craze.
• Against School -- John Taylor Gatto.

Other

• US newspaper hierarchy
• Gay marriage through history
• Cell phone users drive like old folks
• Washington pitting hysteria
• William Hyde's review of "The Day After Tomorrow