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Amorphous and ad hoc justifications

The last two issues of Lobster magazine is online. From Big Think, August is the month of thinking dangerously: one new radical idea a day. From Travel and Leisure, a look at the world's most delicious street foods — from New York to Saigon, here are the can’t-miss options. From n+1, Nick Holdstock on Pynchon in Poland. A man belonging to the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians, the only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon basin, was sighted near a region targeted for deforestation by Brazilian cattle-ranchers. From Law & Politics Book Review, a review of Reasons of Identity: A Normative Guide to the Political and Legal Assessment of Identity Claims by Avigail Eisenberg; and a review of The Regulation of Organised Civil Society by Jonathan Garton. From Low-tech Magazine, the freshly launched "International Traditional Knowledge Institute" (ITKI) is an ambitious effort by UNESCO to preserve, restore and promote the re-use of traditional skills and inventions from all over the world; and an article on ropes and knots, fast on their way to become an obsolete technology (and more). On the defense of planet Earth from asteroidal or cometary impact: Why has this been ignored or sidestepped in favor of amorphous and ad hoc justifications for building rocket ships? A review of H G Wells: Another Kind of Life by Michael Sherborne (and more).