• Medical Myths - Now Available

About a year ago I asked my readers and SGU listeners to send me suggestions about medical myths they would like to hear debunked. Now I get to reveal what project that was for - I was asked to record a course series for The Teaching Company. The final result is now available:

Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths: What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us

• BEN GOLDACRE TALKS BAD SCIENCE

• A shameful Thought for the Day

Pope Benedict XVI presides over a church that continues to promote the repugnant idea of original sin

• An Army Survey Biased Against Foxhole Atheists

• Holy Ignorance, a book you might want to read

• The Uncanny Valley

I recently saw the movie Tron - the sequel that just came out last week. Not a bad sequel for a Disney movie - the plot and characters were a bit thin, but there was some nice eye-candy. The movie did try one thing that few have before it - it tried to accurately simulate a realistic person in CG. They needed a young Jeff Bridges so they created him in CG. It was pretty good, but just slightly off. I especially noticed it around the mouth when he spoke - it was creepy.