From New Scientist, extreme survival: A series on the toughest life forms on Earth. From Fast Company, Danielle Sacks on the future of advertising: Advertising is on the cusp of its first creative revolution since the 1960s — but the ad industry might get left behind. America’s toughest sheriffs are corrupt, mustachioed. If I’m hot, then why are you not? (and part 2) The Raw and the Cooked: An interview with Catalin Avramescu on cannibalism and the moral order of society. A review of The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Alice Popejoy on genetic discrimination, the best reason for universal healthcare you’ve never heard of. Garry Wills reviews 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective by G.B. Trudeau. The forgotten freedom: We say that everything in our nation is political, but in a deeper sense of the word, almost nothing anymore in our nation is political, and that is the problem. Unlearning to tawk: After being mocked, some New Yorkers have turned to speech therapists to reduce or eliminate their distinctive accents. Thinking you can learn anything about sex from a Color Me Badd song isn't all that different from imaging you'll learn anything about verifiable facts from a Business Insider article. DNA and geneaological records of native Icelanders reveal that an Amerindian woman may have been the first native American to set foot in Europe. Pascal's endgame: Animals have often been our tools, but these days we’re also using animals to augment our epistemology, in a deadly race between perception and perfection. Culture and Its Discontents: Matthew Arnold understood that culture is a permanent invitation to all to stand upon the shoulders of giants who have gone before. Ahmed Ghailani's trial shows that courts should admit all reliable evidence.
