QuickLinks 7/11

In an attempt to share more ideas with you I intend to follow the lines of SkepChick and every now and then give you a selection of links to posts that don't quite warrant commenting on individually, but are worth checking out anyway.

• The Guardian explains the benefits of using nuns in scientific trials.
• Phil Plait's response to being asked by MSNBC about the retrograde motion of Mercury causing electronics to fail. See also the MSNBC article.
  
• Hank Fox left his job over jibe at atheists.
• Nearly a quarter of Americans (surprise, surprise) have witnessed a "miraculous, physical healing".
• Oliver Cross is confused by a topless woman.
  

See also:

• My page of clippings from the Guardian.