* Kenny Pearce is hosting the 67th Philosophers' Carnival, on the subject of Idealism. Some excellent selections there. Kenny's post on the universal language issue in Berkeley, and possible extensions thereof, is worth mentioning in particular.
* Queen Rania of Jordan starts off her YouTube campaign against negative Arab stereotypes.
* The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation gives financial assistance grants to early-career female science researchers who are mothers. Nüsslein-Volhard, a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, became tired of watching promising young female scientists struggle because they had families. This was a splendid idea.
* CBS has placed the episodes of the original series Star Trek online. They also have The Twilight Zone.
* David of "He Lives" uses a case where Newton's Third Law is violated to discuss the relation of the Third Law to the conservation of momentum.
* The Most Unwanted Song (mp3). Strictly speaking, it is a song built entirely out of things that people most dislike to find in music; which means that almost everyone will find some feature that they hate. (ht)
* PZ Myers has an excellent post on pseudonymity in blogging, as does Janet Stemwedel.
* A post and discussion on the narcissism of philosophy as blood sport at "Feminist Philosophers".
