Do Men Lie More Than Women?
According to the responses to a survey commissioned by the Science Museum of London, on average, British men tell three lies every day or roughly 1,092 every year. By comparison women, on average, said they only told two fibs a day, which works out to 728 lies a year. (CBS4)

Spanish Scientists Clone a Bull for Fighting
Scientists in Spain have cloned a fighting bull for the first time, saying they hoped he would be as fierce as his father. The feat could mean that a fresh version of the same animal would be able to fight again and again (and be killed again and again). (Rebecca Boyle, Popular Science)

Spiritually “Lost”
Chris Seay, a Christian pastor in Houston and author of The Gospel According to Lost, reflects on the spiritual value of a secular TV show. “It’s about faith versus science and good versus evil,” says Seay, a devoted Lost fan who’s sad to see the show end. (Walt Belcher, The Tampa Tribune)

Religion Is the “New Fault Line” in the Campus Culture Wars
Eboo Patel: From the The Passion of the Christ to the passions raised by the Middle East, from the new aggressive atheism to the religious revival among evangelicals and Muslims, conflicts in the culture are quickly becoming conflicts on the quad. Colleges ought to view this as an opportunity to be embraced, rather than a headache to be ignored. (Inside Higher Ed)

Facebook Blocked in Pakistan
A Pakistani court ordered Internet providers to block access to Facebook following an uproar in the Muslim nation over a “Draw Muhammad Day” page posted to the social-networking site as an expression of free speech and rejection by non-Muslims of that faith’s tenet against depictions of Islam’s founder. (Frank James, The Two-Way, NPR)

BOOKS
The Invisible Gorilla
Cognitive psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons have spent their careers studying how our brains trick us into thinking we see and know much more than we actually do. Why we misremember important events but remain absolutely certain we’re right and why our intuition so often fails us. (Neal Conan, Talk of the Nation, NPR)