Reading a report on religious practice and science

Reading a report on religious practice and science for a class presentation.

Interesting things:
* Around %50 of scientists at top-level American universities report having religious beliefs. Around %70 say that they have some "spirituality."

* The "hard sciences" report more religion than the "soft sciences" report more religion than the "social sciences." The least religious science is psychology. The most is chemistry.

* Scientists are less religious than the population as a whole. The only Christian denomination represented more among scientists than the population at large is "liberal protestant." Several minority religions are over-represented among scientists by 2-3x : Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus. If you consider Atheism a religion, it is also over-represented, about on the same scale as Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

I'd really like to see a cross-comparison by social class and income bracket, but the study didn't have one.

Polaris

The people of Polaris are rarified, strange, beautiful, and doomed. The sip starlight nectars from icicle cups and dance in the name of their own destruction. Their eyes shine starry like the wishes of sapphires and rubies. The world will never see their like again.

The players of Polaris are unique, imperfect, beautiful, and possessed of a terrifying genius. They speak words that call beyond history, the tell stories where there have never been stories, and they sing unburdened and clear beneath the weight of ten myriad impossibilities. Their play is like the last poem that a poet dare not write, for words will not strike the beauty of it. My world does not deserve their like.

Thanks, guys.