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Towards the space of the general

From Fennia: International Journal of Geography, Elen-Maarja Trell and Bettina van Hoven (Groningen): Making Sense of Place: Exploring Creative and (Inter)Active Research Methods with Young People. Inside the wild, wacky, profitable world of Boing Boing: It's eccentric, it's unprofessional, and it makes money — how four people who do exactly what they want run one of the most popular blogs on the planet. A review of And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with Top Humor Writers About Their Craft by Mike Sacks. From First Things, David Hart on anarcho-monarchism and J.R.R. Tolkien; and Maureen Mullarkey on how modernity offers uneasy secularists two seductive hedges: aestheticism and Buddhism. A review of Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon. Towards the space of the general: Keti Chukhrov on labor beyond materiality and immateriality. Information overload, the early years: Five centuries years ago, a new technology swamped the world with data — what we can learn from the aftermath. Bruce Bartlett on how the "starve the beast" is an unproven deficit management theory that is more bull than it is believable. A happy collision: The future of the rugby scrum is being considered by research into the long-term effects on the body. A review of Globalizing Beauty: Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century. “Who am I without you?”: A look at the influence of romantic breakup on the self-concept.