[The Washington Post]
The United States is the most religious nation in the developed world, if religiosity is measured by belief in all things supernatural—from God and the Virgin Birth to the humbler workings of angels and demons. Americans are also the most religiously ignorant people in the Western world. Fewer than half can identify Genesis as the first book of the Bible, and only one third know that Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount.

[Prospect]
What is wrong with the modern literary novel? Why is it so worthy and dull? Why is it so anxious? Why is it so bloody boring?

[YouTube]
Beautifully-executed, and profoundly odd, animated short. [video]

[sfwa.org]
The 2007 Nebula Award winners.

[YouTube]
Giovanni Sollima—Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream), Part 1. [video]

[lifehack.org]
How to become a creative genius. Or at least become creative.

[RichardDawkins.net]
Christopher Hitchens on Lou Dobbs: Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins. [video]