From Scientific American, an article on how to unleash your creativity: Experts discuss tips and tricks to let loose your inner ingenuity. Science is a language of hope and inspiration, providing discoveries that fire the imagination and instill a sense of connection to our lives and our world. From The Nation, Larry Lessig, the visionary professor who inspired the "free culture" movement, takes on money in politics. Imagining the east: Once dismissed as imperialist fantasies about the Muslim world, British orientalist paintings are once again becoming popular. More and more and more on Nixonland by Rick Perlstein (and an excerpt at Bookforum). Absolute Hot: Is there an opposite to absolute zero? From Prospect, liberalise or die: Labour is in deep trouble; to survive, it must turn its back on its centralising tradition and embrace liberalism; and the claim that there is no such thing as race is understandable but wrong: A review of Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate by Kenan Malik and Trust: Self-interest and the Common Good by Marek Kohn. More and more on Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada. Contrary to popular opinion, book blurbing is not simply an insider's game of back scratching and industry favor. Scott McClellan tells how he lost respect for one of the finest public servants he's ever known. A review of Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen.
