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Clay Shirky talking about cognitive surplus

HT: David Gurteen

Dawkins and Hitchens are wrong: Religious people are actually much nicer than atheists, according to new study – Telegraph Blogs

There’s an interesting article in USA Today by David Campbell and Robert Putman, two political scientists who’ve just completed a magisterial, five-year study of the way in which religion affects American society. They try and present their findings in an even-handed, politically neutral way, but there’s no escaping the fact that religion and religious [...]