Sherif Girgis and Robert George (Princeton) and Ryan T. Anderson (Notre Dame): What is Marriage? From MRZine, Roland Boer on the ethical failure of Terry Eagleton. Christian Caryl on WikiLeaks in the moral void. Blocking WikiLeaks: Can free speech be protected on a private Internet? Exposed: Village Voice Media's super-secret hipster-porn sex sites. Here are the first five hipsters to ever appear ever. An interview with dissident author Yu Jie: "China cannot be democratized overnight". Can science explain art, music and literature? Roger Scruton wants to know. From TED, Jason Fried on why work doesn't happen at work. The Business of Weird: Why people pay for bizarre experiences. If psychologists find signs of ESP, maybe psychologists have a problem. Blowing in the wind: Here is everything you ever wanted to know about farts. From Spectrum, an article on Ray Kurzweil's slippery futurism: His stunning prophecies have earned him a reputation as a tech visionary, but many of them don't look so good on close inspection. From Time, an interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil. Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't: Paradoxically, one can make long-term predictions on the basis of the prevalence of forecasting errors (and more and more and more). Sweden was only a technical failure away from a terrorist bloodbath as the Scandinavian monarchy was hit by the first suicide bomber in the nation’s history.
