* Religious Experiences at "Philosophy, et cetera"
* Two Senses of 'Analytic' at "The Conservative Philosopher"
* On Prayer--Fluency Comes With Practice at "Flos Carmeli"
* The Cognitive Science of Art: Beauty and the Brain at "Mixing Memory"
* Jazz for beginners at "Inkless Wells" (Hat-tip: A Journey Through Time.)
* "Science and Politics" has a post with links on Ernst Mayr's death Thursday. He was 100 years old.
* The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope (PDF) by Eugene Volokh; see also this post at "The Volokh Conspiracy".