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Ivana Zagorac (Zagreb): One World or None: Albert Schweitzer as a Peace Activist. Uday Chandra (Yale): The Case for a Postcolonial Approach to the Study of Politics. Dorothy E. Roberts (Penn): The Social Context of Oncofertility. From the latest issue of Numeracy, Pete Nye and Cinnamon Hillyard (UWB): Personal Financial Behavior: The Influence of Quantitative Literacy and Material Values. From The National Interest, Marc Goodman and Parag Khanna on the power of Moore's Law in a world of geotechnology. This simple blood test reveals birth defects — and the future of pregnancy. Abby Rogers on why society might actually need psychopaths. Robert McCrum on the global linguistic revolution: The world's fastest growing language is no language at all. Oliver Burkeman on why stereotypes are bad even when they're “good”. The Catch-22 of Eyewitness ID: Juries trust the memory of witnesses even when they shouldn’t. From Cracked.com, Kyle Stevens on the 5 most hilariously insane rulers of all time; Cyriaque Lamar on why the dick pic is our cultural legacy; and Chris Bucholz in the top 7 things of all time.