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Mariana A. Preciado and Kerri L. Johnson (UCLA): Perceived Consequences of Hypothetical Identity-Inconsistent Sexual Experiences: Effects of Perceiver’s Sex and Sexual Identity. From National Affairs, Howard Husock on the dangers of quasi-capitalism. Has the Voyager 1 probe finally left the Solar System? John Quiggin on the Bitcoin bubble and a bad hypothesis: Under the efficient-markets hypothesis, a worthless digital currency should have never gotten off the ground. Whatever rage you're feeling toward the perpetrator of this Boston attack, that's the rage in sustained form that people across the world feel toward the US for killing innocent people in their countries. Driving is much deadlier than terrorism — why isn’t it scarier? Humans are flighty, irrational creatures that calculate risk in fascinating ways. Maybe we should have more tax brackets, not fewer.