From Powell's, an interview with Michael Gazzaniga, author of Human (and a review) and an interview with Tom Boellstorff, author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. More and more and more on The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank. From Taki's Magazine, John Derbyshire on the Singularity as the Rapture for nerds. What if you could tell whether a man is husband material just by peering at his genes? (and more and more on why men cheat) From TNR, an interview with Charles Barkley on politics. An interview with Graham Vickers, author of Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again. From Monthly Review, a special issue on Ecology: The Moment of Truth. From Left Turn, a special issue on global ecology and the Left. An article on different ways of looking at what it means to be an environmentalist. Plenty Magazine recognizes 20 businesses, 20 people, and 10 ideas that will change our world. Feeding the Beast: Why food prices are skyrocketing. A review of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives by Carolyn Steel and The End of Food: The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry by Paul Roberts (and more and more and more and more). A review of Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food by Andrew Warnes (and more).
