Another cool optical illusion.
I recently visited Taos, NM, and the sky there was clear and you could see so many stars. I was listening today to Debussy’s Arabesque #1 and it brought back memories of Jack Horkheimer‘s Star Hustler (c.f. this episode from 1991). Horkheimer passed away in 2010, but his show was a PBS staple.
A series of blog posts about quantiatively assessing if America is becoming more secular : Parts one, two, and three.
Ian Hacking’s introduction to the new edition of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (via MeFi).
More reasons to miss California. I do like Chicago, but… dumplings!
An Ergodic Walk 
I saw your post in my RSS feed and thought you’d visited Tacos, NM. Nomnomnom. [I’m really raising the level of discussion in the blogosphere today.]
I did eat tacos while I was there… with green chili…