School Officials to High School Band: District Has to Remain Neutral on Religion
Parents in Sedalia are steamed about some high school band T-shirts, and they’ve pressed school officials to get rid of them. The T-shirts are being pulled because of an evolution theme. (Michelle Sherwood, KSPR)

The Start of a Beautiful Friendship
For many of us, some of the most enduring friendships are formed at a time when we are quite vulnerable: the first semester of college, when everything is new. For those who arrive on campus knowing few, if any, other students, researchers have found two strong predictors of who will end up becoming their friends: living proximity and race. (Allison Aubrey, NPR)

What Do You Think?
I asked University of Pennsylvania cognitive neuroscience professor Martha Farah, head of Penn’s new Center for Neuroscience and Society, to talk about new issues currently challenging neuroethicists. (Tom Heneghan, FaithWorld Blog, Reuters)

National Health Service Looks at “Remote Viewing”
Andrew Usher, dean of the British Institute of Homeopathy, and a (non-clinical) partner in an NHS practice in Scotland, is working with a GP to determine if RV can save lives. Usher’s Med RV project uses a team of remote viewers around the world who try to detect illnesses that have been missed by conventional scientific and medical procedures. (Lucy Pinney, Telegraph)

TELEVISION
FlashForward
The underlying question—can you change your future?—is at the heart of ABC’s FlashForward (Sept. 24, 8 ET/PT), among the most-awaited new fall TV series, and one that some are calling the next Lost. (Bill Keveney, USA Today)