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Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• I’ve just become an atheist about competitive sport

– Deborah looks at toxic aspects of competitive culture

• Monday Blogaround

– links from Liss (who’s back from a great holiday)

• Check. This. Out. Amazing photo of the Sun…

– Cool.

• God's own war

– Tell it, Gary.

• Reading this will affect your brain

– PZ dissects some bad neuroscience

• Boris's Big Plans

– insulting the intelligence of Londoners

• Weekly Feminist Reader

– a super crop of links this week

• Images of powerful women v powerful men

– double standards and stereotypes

• Spain Becomes The New “Hot Spot” For Black Market Organ Sales

– ” The decision to sell these organs is not made freely because the failure to do so means destitution and starvation.”

• For The Person Who Wished For A Transcript by Anthony McCarthy

– succinct notes on Darwin, Wallace, Mendel and the intersection of classism and religion in pop science

Categories: linkfest

Tags: blogging, Read-ems