From Vice, here is one of many possible art issues. From Reason, an interview with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb on big spending, the First Amendment, and putting cameras where government doesn’t want them to go. From Anthropology in Practice, faunal friends: Evolution and the animal connection. They call him the "merchant of death," but the most dangerous thing about Russian Victor Bout isn't the weapons he trades — it's the U.S. officials he might take down with him. Pocahontas's wedding chapel found at Jamestown. Mass spectacle: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on a dazzling display of gridiron, greatness and God. A review of Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde. History used to be the study of great men — now it's of Everyman. From Seed, why chess may be an ideal laboratory for investigating gender gaps in science and beyond; and as consensus emerges on the physical basis of mental illness, the mental-health community is fracturing over what, exactly, constitutes “mental illness” in the first place. Lynn Stout on her book Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People. Here's one place where old-school magazines still have a mystique of some magnitude: Hollywood. From THES, a review of How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation by Agnes Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer; a review of Mood Matters: From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers by John L. Casti; and a review of Islands of Privacy by Christena E. Nippert-Eng. From Index on Censorship, a special issue calls for a new approach to tackling censorship online. A Techno-Agrarian Manifesto: Is vertical farming the future of American agriculture?
