Jeffrey Andrew Barash (Jules Verne): At the Threshold of Memory: Collective Memory between Personal Experience and Political Identity. Robert Cailliau's career at CERN spanned almost four decades, during which time he helped build the World Wide Web. Matthew C. Nisbet on online news and the demise of political disagreement. An interview with McKenzie Wark, author of The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International. A review of The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers (and more and more). From SSIR, Kavita Ramdas provides a critique of philanthrocapitalism, and Matthew Bishop and Michael Green argue its continuing merits. Don’t blame me, I didn’t want anything to do with this book: Jeremy Stangroom on amusing Prefaces. From Smithsonian, Mike Dash on the mystery of the five wounds. All those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost — that’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts.
