http://www.starfall.com/ is a website that can significantly help your pre-schooler and early reader improve their literacy, based on my son's experience with it. (More self-reporting bias?) I first learned about this site on slashdot a couple of years ago, and it is so good, I want to make sure it is shared.

Wikipedia could post the pictures "after the jump", and allow readers the choice to view them -- after reading a disclaimer that prior viewing could diminish their utility in therapy.

I think the root cause here is a desire for greater control. Prayer is one way of expressing a desire for control. So is instructing doctors to take every measure possible to prolong your life, in whatever quality. If these two observations are not directly causal, they likely have a common root cause.