A new issue of the Journal of Social Inclusion is out. Gregory F. Nemet and Evan Johnson (Wisconsin): Do Important Inventions Benefit from Knowledge Originating in Other Technological Domains? Richard A. Booth (Villanova): Sex, Lies, and Life Insurance. Ezio Di Nucci (Duisburg-Essen): Sexual Rights and Disability. Maria Tamboukou (East London): Archive Pleasures or Whose Time Is It? Histories of momentous events are being written more rapidly, but does an increase in immediacy lead to a loss of perspective? Extremism in defense of extremism is no vice: What's wrong with challenging the status quo? Spectacular stone structures in the Arabian peninsula rival the Nazca lines of southern Peru in their intricacy — thank Google for the find. A review of books on Scientology. Why did consciousness evolve, and how can we modify it? (and part 2) Think Different: Rightbloggers mourn the death of noted conservative hippie-hater Steve Jobs. Why education is not an economic panacea: Education, in and of itself, is not an antidote to poverty and inequality. From TED, Mark Pagel on how language transformed humanity. Print vs. Online: Jack Shafer on the ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers. WaPo breaks First Lady Lunch news: “Dumbest news story ever written in human history”. A review of The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource by Mary Mellor and The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Micro-Economics by Rod Hill and Tony Myatt. Some say Occupy Wall Street protesters aimless; facts say otherwise. Corruption, murder, and the beautiful game: Brian Phillips on FIFA's scandalous history. Traces of humanity: What aliens could learn from the stuff we’ve left in space. The Ghost Sport: Boxing, today relegated to the margins, was once central to American life.
