* A little late, but always timely: My favorite statement by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
* Nicholas Steno, the least adequately appreciated great scientist in history, gets a mention in a recent op-ed on science and religion.
* "The Rhine River" received a well-earned Cliopatria blogging award.
* I thought this discussion at "Uncertain Principles" of the differences between the way mathematicians and physicists approach mathematics to be very interesting.
* There's a review of Dennett's Breaking the Spell at Scientific American.com. I'll eventually get around to reading it at some point, but it doesn't look particularly interesting--old ideas rewarmed, and (as is too often the case) without regard for the real anthropological and historical facts that need explaining. I hope it's better than that, and not a waste of my time like some of Dennett's more recent work has been.
* In Truth and Truth II Miriam Burstein has a good discussion of truth in historical fiction.
* The History Carnival and the Teaching Carnival are worth browsing.
