A new issue of Surveillance and Society is out. From Evolutionary Psychology, Sunny Bains (Imperial): Questioning the Integrity of the John Templeton Foundation (and more). From The Washington Monthly, last year there wasn’t a single fatal airline accident in the developed world, so why is the U.S. health care system still accidently killing hundreds of thousands? The answer is a lack of transparency. From The Rumpus, Roxane Gay on the careless language of sexual violence. From Vanity Fair, does the anti-Facebook ethos of one of the Web’s largest active forums, represent a movement or just mayhem? Vanessa Grigoriadis peers into 4chan’s “hive mind,” a primordial soup of teenage-male angst and cute cat photos. Bill Keller on All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate: How much more of itself can the media consume? From Wired, underground caverns keep things cold, safe and secret. How sane parents got paranoid about vaccines: A review of Seth Mnookin's The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear (and more). Vaccine phobia is letting preventable infectious diseases needlessly threaten our children; according to Seth Mnookin, it’s time to get real — and get the shots. Mike Sowden on 9 life-changing inventions the experts said would never work. We’ve been misled about how to grieve: Why it may be wise to skip the months of journalling and group talk we’ve been taught we need. Jan McGuinness questions Bruce Guthrie’s motivations for writing Man Bites Murdoch, an account of his sacking as Editor-in-Chief of the Herald Sun. Blurring sexual boundaries: No fixed borders for sexual identity, means no fixed rules for sexual expression. Larry Arnold on his book Ablaze! The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion.
