Winston P. Nagan Levin (Florida): Legal Theory and the Anthropocene Challenge: The Implications of Law, Science, and Policy for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Climate Change. From Arts & Opinion, disgust and intimacy: Tatiana Buzekova and Monika Isova on the social and sexual implications of disgust; and sickness, banking and being: Disease and illness are the pharmaceutical industry's best friends. Simon Schama profiles Arianna Huffington, new media entrepreneur. An interview with Anne Conover Heller, author of Ayn Rand and the World She Made. A look at the 7 most horrifying cost cutting measures of all-time. Why is outdoor gear so ugly? The weird world of performance outerwear. Can modern science help us to create heroes? That's the lofty question behind the Heroic Imagination Project. Will we ever learn just to be content? We're stuck on a treadmill of envy, acquisition and dissatisfaction — worse, developing nations are copying our unsustainable ways. How digital maps are changing the landscape of the 21st century: Mapmakers have more power than ever, but who are the mapmakers? From NYRB, James Gleick on how the word “information” has grown urgent and problematic, a signpost seen everywhere, freighted with new meaning and import. A review of Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica by Fen Montaigne. My Zombie, Myself: Chuck Klosterman on why modern life feels rather undead.
