* The physics of snow crystals. The diagram of snow-crystal shapes at various temperatures and levels of humidity is especially interesting.
* Alexis Torrance, Precedents for Palamas' Essence-Energies Theology in the Cappadocian Fathers
* Facts about the world's major river systems.
* The Suburban Banshee talks about Ethiopian and Abyssinian saints.
* A student atheist group is trading pornography for Bibles. "It is to send a message that the stuff in the bible, and the Quran, and the Torah, and all that sort of thing is, in our case worse, in our opinion worse, than pornography." OK, but I'm not sure who's going to get that message. The people who already are willing to turn in their Bible to get pornography?
* Jason Zarri is collecting information on how many sides you can clearly imagine a polygon to have. Go over and test yourself on it, and let him know.
* John Farrell has an interesting interview with J. Scott Turner on evolution and embodied physiology.