There have been genuinely religious Abrahamists, but only because they’ve somehow maintained the forms of personal-God religions while hav...

It's not just lexical. You can walk — or run, crawl, scurry, roll, etc. — out the gate, out the back, out the exit, etc. You can look —...

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Ownership of your Egg Card account 4627XXXXXXXX3061 has been transferred to Barclays Bank PLC. Dear Dr Dewitt As you may be aware, on 1 Ma...

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the age of an individual is not measured chronologically in Amondawa culture, which lacks a numerical system able to enumerate above four. ...

Andrew Gelman draws attention to a terrific paper by Mark Chaves on the religious congruence fallacy. Religious congruence refers to consi...

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A commenter has pointed out that it is no longer possible to ride around and around and around on the Circle Line. Since 2009 (always the la...

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Always the last to know. From to time to time people ask whether The Last Samurai is available as an e-book, to which I reply, Not to my kno...

About a week ago I got a notification from PayPal that a reader had sent a donation for a secondhand sale of Samurai. I was, as always, extr...