The Tel Aviv Cluster

David Brooks has written a wonderful little article talking about the various successes of Jewish culture. I think it is a fantastic example of how ideas can affect achievement and economic prosperity in a society:

Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world [...]

Those Damned Atheists (Get it?)

Over at Accelerating Future (in my links list), I commented on a post about why ‘atheists need to talk about atheism’ (the post is linked to another decent article at Alternet.) This came up because some blogger said something to the effect of: “It’s not atheism that I mind all that much, it’s just [...]