Louise Crowther (Manchester): Diderot, Spinoza, and the Question of Virtue. Form ProPublica, who will Bush let off the hook?; what docs can the White House put in the shredder?; and can Obama turn back the clock on Bush’s midnight rules? A review of The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Lloyd. If our tests mimic the real world, then higher bonuses may not only cost employers more but also discourage executives from working to the best of their ability. The Old-School Individualist: Independent game designer Jeff Vogel on putting morality into play. We have come to think of gender as a spectrum; is it time to do the same for sex? From World Press, an article on 120 years of non-concluded abolition. An infinite loop in the brain: What if memory never faded, but instead could be retrieved at any time, as reliably as films in a video store? George W. Bush wasn't so bad: We don’t need to wait for history to render judgment on the positive aspects of Bush’s presidency. Nine out of ten dogmas: Frank Furedi on the assumptions, agendas and distinctly iffy data behind those ubiquitous words, "research shows". A review of The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson. An interview with Thomas Hayden, author of Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World (and an excerpt).
