Over at Rationally Speaking, there is a proposal to move towards using odds instead of probabilities when speaking of uncertainty.
I highly recommend this lucid discussion of the brain, free will and criminal responsibility from David Eagleman in The Atlantic.
Running experiments is sometimes a pain, but I'm not sure what to think of this site where one can outsource one's experiments. It's called 'EBay for science', but I worry about how one would trust that the experiments were done well.
What does your writing say about you? Quite a bit, it turns out.
Predictive policing - using statistics to determine the times and locations of future crimes.
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