links for 2007-08-09 Vaughan: Excellent BBC Brain Story series available online: probably one of the best TV series on psychology and neuroscience ever produced, the BBC's Brain Story, is available on public bittorrent servers for download. Chad Orzel: Residential Academia: While I was out of town, there was a nice article in the New York Times Education section about the Minerva House system that Union has set up recently.in an attempt to (among other things) reduce the dominance of fratern P.Z. Myers: Gregg Easterbrook: Oh, no…not Easterbrook. Haven't I dealt with him sufficiently in the past? He's got a long-winded column in which, while quantifying the nudity in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, he also whines about those godless John Scalzi: When Stupid People Do Stupid Things, And Then Do Even Stupider Things (Whatever) Michael Ignatieff: Who Are Americans To Think That Freedom Is Theirs To Spread? Glenn Greenwald: If you haven't already read it, I highly recommend this memo from Samantha Powers, a Harvard Professor and top foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama. It is one of the best and potentially most important political documents I have read in Glenn C. Loury: Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?: Before 1965, public attitudes on the welfare state and on race, as measured by the annually administered General Social Survey, varied year to year independently of one another: you could not predict m Demetrius Charles Boulger: China BlogWarBot, the Automated Internet Political Argument