Darrell Payne and Linda Wermeling (NKU): Domestic Violence and the Female Victim: The Real Reason Women Stay. From Mother Jones, an article on the Purpose-Driven Wife: Teaching women to submit to their husbands, for the love of Christ. Lies, damned lies and blatant statistical lies: Did you hear the one about the Turin Shroud? Or the one about bad pupil behaviour? Time is real: An interview with Astra Taylor, director of "The Examined Life". Gettysburg regress: How the government is ruining America's most famous battlefield. Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barack Obama is capable of being a pragmatic progressive. Has Obama ruined his chances of ending the culture war? Anchors away: Michael Schaffer on the strange resilience of the local TV personality. In the Internet age, foreign correspondents write for locals as well as for readers living somewhere else. From Psychology Today, Neanderthink: An article on the appeal of the bad boy; and a look at designer babies as a common misconception about science (and more from Wired). An excerpt from Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice by Ronald M. Green. An article on synthetic biology: building life (potential & dangers). Valid fundraising on Facebook could help legitimize the site (if it’s not too late) — but who thinks heavy metal, beer, and Paris Hilton qualify as legitimate causes?
