From Identity in the Information Society, a special issue on the next generation in the evolution of privacy. The naked choke: Documenting a lifelong love affair with extended bouts of unconsciousness. While engineers can be judged almost instantly by the quality of their work, a longer-term view is required when examining the reputations of our politicians. What do you do with these things? An interview with Andrew Pettegree, author of The Book in the Renaissance. A review of People of Walmart.com Shop & Awe by Adam Kipple, Andrew Kipple, and Luke Wherry. An interview with William Powers, author of Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. A review of The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (and more and more and more). If science has not actually killed God, it has rendered Him unrecognisable. The End of Civilization as We Know It? A Duke Magazine Forum explores the future of reading; and the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition may be the most intensely difficult intellectual contest ever designed for undergraduates. Bishkek Blunder: Did Kyrgyzstan's government facilitate ethnic cleansing? A review of The Man With The Golden Touch: How The Bond Films Conquered The World by Sinclair McKay. The first chapter from The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages by Robert Fossier. A review of Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda by Carolyn de la Pena. Take the Evolution Challenge: To gain real knowledge of humanity, every field needs to drink from the "cup" of evolutionary theory. Who's got more Twitter influence, you or Hugo Chavez? See how world leaders are using the Internet to increase their political capital.
