W. A. Bogart (Windsor): Who Wants a Fat Child? Care for Obese Children in Weight Obsessed Societies. Raluca Petre (Ovidius): Global Structures, Scarce Local Agency: On Teen Magazines in Romania. Life in the Algorithm: The searches we make, the news we read, the dates we go on, the advertisements we see, the products we buy and the music we listen to, the stock market, the surveillance society, the police state, and the drones — all guided by a force we never see and few understand. Jerome Groopman reviews On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss and Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine by Paul A. Offit. Why humanity is obsessed with its fur: A review of Plucked: A History of Hair Removal by Rebecca Herzig. Hannah and Me: Jeffrey Goldfarb on understanding politics in dark times. What is wrong with evolutionary psychology? If Obamacare loses at the Supreme Court, it’s Republican states that suffer. Lost city discovered in the Honduran rain forest: In search for legendary “City of the Monkey God”, explorers find the untouched ruins of a vanished culture. The Internet is destroying our brains, and humankind is starting to fight back. Why Google Glass broke: How Google Glass went from the hottest thing in wearable tech to the Edsel of Silicon Valley. Alexa Tsoulis-Reay on what it’s like to be a polyamorous genius: “Having a high IQ doesn’t mean you are going to be successful. It just means your brain works faster”.
