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From Evolutionary Psychology, a review of Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford's Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins; a review of Agustin Fuentes' Evolution of Human Behavior; and a review of Daniel Lord Smail's On Deep History and the Brain. A review of Screening Sex by Linda Williams. The Netbook Effect: A look at how cheap little laptops hit the big time (and more from Good). Pigou you, too: Will the government get addicted to carbon taxes? Text Me: How electronic reminders can give consumers the right information at the right time. If you’re a defense lobbyist, it might be time to panic: It’s really, really, really difficult to be optimistic about cutting Pentagon waste. A review of On Criticism: Thinking in Action by Noel Carroll. From Eureka Street, an article on art and the Piss Christ umbrella. From New Scientist, a review of Science and Islam: A history by Ehsan Masood; and The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs transformed Western civilization by Jonathan Lyons. So Long, Alex P. Keaton: The millennial generation could pull American politics even further to the left, and for a longer time, than the Reagan generation pulled our politics to the right. A review of Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis. Birth control for animals: A scientific approach to limiting the wildlife population explosion.