Marko A. Rodriguez and Vadas Gintautas (LANL) and Alberto Pepe (UCLA): A Grateful Dead Analysis: The Relationship Between Concert and Listening Behavior. An article on the Edgar Allan Poe Bicentennial: The real horror story is how poorly he's taught in schools. Extending Darwinism: Is there more to heredity, natural selection, and evolution than genes and DNA? A review of Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America by Barry Werth (and more from Bookforum). Barney’s Great Adventure: The most outspoken man in the House gets some real power. From The New York Observer, meet the Media Mensches, 2009; and it's geek to you, but not to them: Meet the early adopters. Why we are hard-wired to become attached to a particular piece of land — and how these primal tendencies may be playing out in Israeli-Palestinian disputes. The introduction to Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment by Risa Brooks. Paul Kennedy on how American power is on the wane. Cutting-edge legal mind Lawrence Lessig turns to an age-old problem: corruption. From Reason, chiefs, thieves, and priests: An interview with Matt Ridley on the causes of poverty and prosperity; and would you have been a Nazi? A new test of Milgram's obedience experiment asks if it can still happen here.
