[Zogby International]
Sixty-seven percent of people in a new survey view traditional journalism as "out of touch." The internet is the top source of news for nearly half of Americans. Two-thirds are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism.

[Rolling Stone]
Matt Taibbi: I realized how quaint was the mere suggestion that Christians of this type should learn to "be rational" or "set aside your religion" about such things as the Iraq War or other policy matters. Once you've made a journey like this—once you've gone this far—you are beyond suggestible. It's not merely the informational indoctrination, the constant belittling of homosexuals and atheists and Muslims and pacifists, etc., that's the issue. It's that once you've gotten to this place, you've left behind the mental process that a person would need to form an independent opinion about such things. You make this journey precisely to experience the ecstasy of beating to the same big gristly heart with a roomful of like-minded folks. Once you reach that place with them, you're thinking with muscles, not neurons.

[New Scientist]
Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination.

[Locus Online]
2008 Nebula Award winners.

[herecomeseverybody.org]
Clay Shirky: Escaping television to capitalize on the social surplus.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
The Telegraph chooses its list of the 50 best cult books.

[theworlds50best.com]
The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants is recognised around the world as the most credible indicator of the best places to eat on Earth.

[The New York Times]
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences.

[The New York Times]
A judge has thrown out charges against Steven Kurtz, a college art professor accused of improperly obtaining biological materials for an exhibit protesting U.S. government food policies.

[The New York Times]
A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900. Roughly a third of all American high school students drop out.

[Economist.com]
"Nomadism" changes buildings, cities and traffic.

[GameZine.co.uk]
Research from the United States claims that people who do not play videogames are likely to be more anti-social than those who do.

['skineart]
Excellent examples of art that people draw in their Moleskine notebooks.

[The New York Times]
Turns out that money may indeed tend to facilitate happiness, even if it doesn’t guarantee it (did anyone really not know this??).

[EurekAlert!]
The exchange of resources for sex has occurred throughout history in many species, including humans. Recent findings suggest that such behaviors are hard wired, and persist no matter how much wealth, resources or security that people obtain.

[Webcomics Nation]
Follow your nose...it always knows: Breakfast of the Gods [comic].

[Poetry Library on the South Bank]
This is a free access site to the full-text digital library of 20^th and 21^st century UK poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection.

[Reuters]
More than half of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health care plan and fewer than a third oppose the idea.