From Portugal's Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais, how can a "critical border thinking" that envisages a "transmodern world" moves us beyond Eurocentrism? From First Principles, an article on Edmund Husserl and the crisis of Europe; and like H.L. Mencken, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway, and other original Americans, Ray Bradbury had the advantage of never attending college. Voters choose, but on the basis of what? An excerpt from Rick Shenkman's Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter. From The Boston Globe's "Ideas", a look at how Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction. Inside jokes: Science writer Jim Holt explores why we laugh. Harvard historian Steven Shapin says our image of scientists is all wrong. Here are 5 myths about the bust that will follow the Boom(ers). A review of Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac. A review of A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman. From New Scientist, do we have the technology to build a bionic human? David Warsh reviews The End of Food by Paul Roberts. A review of 1001 Books for Every Mood by Hallie Ephron. From The Washington Post Magazine, Senator Jim Webb, first person singular. From LA Weekly, a series of articles on Zen and the Art of Cougar Hunting.
