links for 2008-12-16

• McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis.
  (tags: finance amusements)
• Your amazing brain: Top 10 articles from 2008 – life – 05 December 2008 – New Scientist
  (tags: neuroscience research science)
• The fire within
  The Beautiful Mind is an online gallery of stunning neuroscience photographs, aiming to demonstrate the beauty within.
  (tags: neuroscience visualization)
• Religion in schools to go God-free | theage.com.au
  VICTORIAN state primary school students will soon have an alternative — religious education lessons taught by people who do not believe in God and say there is "no evidence of any supernatural power".

  The Humanist Society of Victoria has developed a curriculum, which the State Government accreditation body says it intends to approve, to deliver 30-minute lessons each week of "humanist applied ethics" to primary pupils.

  Accredited volunteers will be able to teach their philosophy in the class time designated for religious instruction. As with lessons delivered by faith groups, parents will be able to request that their children do not participate.

  (tags: australia religion)
• Origin of Sex Pinned Down | LiveScience
  (tags: genetics sex)
• Britain's oldest human brain unearthed – CNN.com
  (tags: brains)
• Paracord Survival Bracelets
  (tags: stuff travel)
• blue cat: The Greatest Music Video Ever Made, or 'Oh Noes, He's Grabbed The Pointy Ends!!11!eleven!'"
  (tags: videos amusements)
• The Cats' House: Cats Overhead! And, Photography for Hire
  (tags: cats photography)