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A new issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture is out. Lucas Osborn (Campbell): Intellectual Property's Digital Future. Chris King (Auckland): Sex, Genes, Politics and Company Law: Can Capitalist Democracy Coexist with Human Survival? Ben Casselman on how the conventional wisdom on oil is always wrong. What industries will produce the first trillionaires? Dystopian fiction's popularity is a warning sign for the future. Mathematicians have now made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart primes can be. Sarah Kliff on how Vermont's single-payer health care dream fell apart. Natasha Vargas-Cooper on the acquisitive self, minus the self: Thanks to the exhibition-friendly canons of social media, the scions of excess are back and flaunting it, baby. Black poverty is state violence, too: Sarah Jaffe on why struggles for criminal justice and living wage are uniting. The recent high-profile deaths of black people at the hands of police officers have exposed sharp differences about race relations in unexpected and often uncomfortable ways. Blue lives matter: Talking about “police reform” obscures the task — today's policies are, at the very least, the product of democratic will. Eric Boehlert on Fox News' double standard for Right-wing cop killers. A lot of smart people think North Korea didn't hack Sony. US corporations claim billions in assets in Cuba and now they'll want it back. Ruby Cramer on the draft campaign Elizabeth Warren didn’t ask for but hasn’t killed. The magazine world’s oldest, richest and biggest audiences: Michael Rondon on what the data says about the readers of nearly 200 magazines.