• Richard Dawkins: Viruses of the Mind http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html 41 comments 29/11/2009
• Bertrand Russell, "On Sales Resistance" http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Russell/Hearst_Essays/On_Sales_Resistance.html 65 comments 8/9/2009
• Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/chomsky-on-postmodernism.html 27 comments 7/6/2009
• Viruses of the Mind - Richard Dawkins on Religion http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html 8 comments 12/4/2009

• Wolfram's 'A New Kind Of Science" : A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/?dupe=with_honor 185 comments 16/5/2010 programming
• General intelligence, a statistical myth http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html 131 comments 26/3/2010 cogsci
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie is best known for his work "L'homme machine", wherein he rejected the Cartesian dualism of mind and body, and proposed the metaphor of the human being as machine. http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/LaMettrie/Machine/ 7 comments 1/9/2009 philosophy
• Running out of nonfiction to read? Try this guy's page ... http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/ 9 comments 20/7/2009 books
• Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" for the Uninitiated: "A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity." http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/?dupe=with_honor 12 comments 16/5/2007 science