Kerri Lynn Stone (FIU): Clarifying Stereotyping. The focused arrogance of the highly creative: New research links creativity with lower levels of honesty and humility. From The Boston Globe Magazine, Wheelock professor Gail Dines blames sex trafficking on the porn industry; and Ned Holstein battles for divorced fathers' rights. A review of Built to Last: The Illustrated Secrets of Mankind’s Greatest Structures by David Macaulay. A review of Harold Bloom's The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life. A review of A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World’s Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam (and more). Christopher DeWolf writes in defense of street art. Change yourself if you can’t change the world: Cosmetic surgery and allied procedures were less hard hit by the great global crash than many other businesses. The Millennium Project releases its 2011 State of the Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. Why Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet. Reading the paranormal writing us: An interview with Jeffrey Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. Diagnosis evil: Simon Baron-Cohen wants to redefine how we think of human cruelty. The Taliban is alive and active — James Fergusson recounts his face-to-face meeting, in a mine-protected Afghan village, with one of the feared group’s most powerful figures. Overdone: Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad? From The Independent Review, an article on Mario Vargas Llosa: An Intellectual Journey. Cosma Shalizi reviews Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. An issue of The Wolves at the Door, an irregular journal of anarchist ideas and theory, is out.
