Not much today. Read the links.

I read a lot. So here is today's sampling of sites.
Enjoy.

• Five Books: An expert chooses five books on their special subjects and recommends it to the lay reader.
• Carnival of Evolution #29
• A NYT article on the Great Plague of Europe. (Not to be confused with Randy Newman's song, the "Great Nations of Europe." Or maybe it should.)
• Wilmot Baptist Church Judgment House.
• The suicide of Zach Harrington.
• Physics of Mind and the Limits of AI
• The Politicians We Deserve
• You Tube Videos of the International Atheist Conference
• Politics of Global Warming Denialism
• Web of Stories
• Hitchens vs. Hitchens: Civilization with/without God
• NYT: Morals without God by Frans De Waal
• Good analysis of the 2010 election (with some ranting) here. Also here.
• Alaskan politics
• Brain development in Neanderthals
• The Oatmeal on Toilets