Archive for July, 2009
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
Trends in War, Bad and Good
I just got the 2009 Yearbook of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, published by Oxford University Press. It’s the best source I know of for up-to-date info on war, peace, arms, armies, etc. Some worrisome trends:
Global spending on weapons has risen 4 percent a year over the past 10 years, to about $1.4 trillion. [...]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
God, War, Evolution, Etc.
Odds and ends related to the big issues of our day:
Bloggingheads.tv just aired a “cage match” between me and Robert Wright, author of the new book The Evolution of God. I do my best to pin Bob down about his beliefs, but damn the man is slippery!
New Scientist just published my article “How Humans Could [...]