Curtis Bridgeman (FSU): The Morality of Jingle Mail: Moral Myths about Strategic Default. From Image and Narrative, a special issue on the visual language of manga. From The Atlantic Monthly, a cover story on how genius works: How does that spark of creativity find its way to the canvas, the page, the dinner plate, or the movie screen? Inside the messy, maddening, and mysterious process of creating something new. A review of Niche: Why the Market No Longer Favours the Mainstream by James Harkin. You think some businesses just can't be replaced by the web, and then a site like ZenniOptical.com comes along. Alex Pareene on WorldNetDaily, the biggest, dumbest wingnut site on the Web. Legendary saints were real, buried alive: Bones of a Roman couple — killed for being Christian — may have been identified. An interview with David Graeber on activism, academia and the alter-globalization movement. Reading the Fantasy Map: It is hard to imagine a world without maps; now stop and diagram that sentence. A review of The Nature of Dignity by Ron Bontekoe. How the abolition of mandatory retirement continues to change America in unexpected ways. Minsoo Kang on his book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination. The twisted world of Porn WikiLeaks: A site exposes adult performers' real names and home addresses — industry insiders talk about its dangers. Being human: An interview with AC Grayling. Is it dangerous to fire a gun into the air? From TPM, what the lobbyists' lobbyist is lobbying for: An article on Howard Marlowe, president of the American League of Lobbyists. A review of Sera L. Young's Craving Earth: Understanding Pica. A review of Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience by Stephen Hall.
