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Slow ideas

Here are the inaugural issues of Horror Studies (January 2010); Philosophy of Photography (March 2010); the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema (October 2010); the Journal of European Popular Culture (November 2010); Punk and Post-Punk (September 2011); the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (March 2012); Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media (September 2012); and the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies (April 2013). From New York, a special section on Sex: Theory and Practice. Slow ideas: Atul Gawande on why innovations don’t always catch on. In climbing income ladder, location matters: A study finds the odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston. Pramit Bhattacharya on everything you wanted to know about the Sen-Bhagwati debate. Matthew Yglesias on how Nate Silver's amazing election forecasting method is also incredibly simple (and more). Obama speech, Trayvon protests lure Rightbloggers into another week of hilarious minority outreach. Tyler Cowen on wealth taxes: A future battleground. A look at how to block the royal baby news on Facebook, Twitter. In a just world, this innocent child would be going up for adoption, since its family would have been imprisoned for crimes against humanity. Lee Billings on the best way yet to talk to aliens (if they’re out there).