Holly Davis (Edinburgh): Defining “Pimp”: Working Towards a Definition in Social Research. With media attention for people like Nate Silver and Hans Rosling, some are now able to name at least one statistician, but, stepping it up a level, could you name a female statistician? Kevin Roose on five charts that matter more than the Dow. Beyond the First Law of Petropolitics: Daniele J. Atzori on the relationships between oil and autocracy. Sometimes Isaiah Berlin felt like a fox, sometimes he felt like a hedgehog: Robert Zaretsky on the 60th anniversary of the philosopher's influential essay. Dinesh D'Souza's new film to answer “What if America never existed?” The FBI announces that it has identified the thieves who stole paintings valued at an estimated $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990.
