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Chunking and gridding

Yan-hua Tao (Binzhou): A Study on Cultural Connotations Between Chinese and English Animal Words. From Surveillance & Society, Anthony Bolton Newkirk (Philander Smith): The Rise of the Fusion-Intelligence Complex: A Critique of Political Surveillance After 9/11; and Stuart Waiton (Abertay Dundee): The Politics of Surveillance: Big Brother on Prozac; and a review of Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine And Fighting It by Mark Klein. Amartya Sen’s foreword doesn’t demystify Polanyi: A review of The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi. A review of Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market by Gareth Dale. The Power of Paternalism: Can government-enforced “self-exclusion” programs help people to control their own appetites? Feminist icon, anti-Catholic fabrication – or just a woman battling in a man's world? The German film Die Papstin, a rags-to-riches story where the heroine becomes pope, has already been written off by the newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference as a hoax. "Is the hijab debate similar to the one on abortion?": An interview with American critical theorist Nancy Fraser. Good journalism betrays: John Lloyd on why democracy depends on small acts of treachery. The Man of Numbers: Keith Devlin is in search of Leonardo Fibonaccci. Long division and long multiplication have been replaced in schools by chunking and gridding; while the new methods are meant to make maths easier, parents have been left scratching their heads.