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Eliot Gelwan What's The World's Favorite Number? http://wp.me/pmrYB-5Ky 
Aug 7, 2011 via Twitter
Eliot Gelwan posted a blog entry Aug 7, 2011
What’s The World’s Favorite Number?
Robert Krulwich: “It’s a simple question, really, but a cunning one, because the answers are so embarrassingly, voluptuously personal. Alex Bellos thought it up. He’s a writer, math enthusiast, and nut.
Here’s what he wants: He wants to know your favorite number. Just that... more »
Eliot Gelwan Drugs and the Meaning of Life http://wp.me/pmrYB-5Kv
Aug 7, 2011 via Twitter
Eliot Gelwan posted a blog entry Aug 7, 2011
Drugs and the Meaning of Life
Sam Harris: ‘I discuss issues of drug policy in some detail in my first book, The End of Faith (pp. 158-164), and my thinking on the subject has not changed. The “war on drugs” has been well lost, and should never have been waged. While it isn’t explicitly protected by the U.S... more »
Eliot Gelwan The science behind disgust - Neuroscience - Salon.com http://wp.me/pmrYB-5Kq
Aug 7, 2011 via Twitter
Eliot Gelwan posted a blog entry Aug 7, 2011
The science behind disgust
In an interview in Salon, Daniel Kelly, Purdue philosopher and author of “Yuck!: The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust,” discusses the evolution of the emotion from a mediator of protection from toxic foodstuffs to one protecting us from dangerous ideas:
‘Does disgust play a... more »
