OF GENITAL THIEVES
The exploration of economic irrationality
Andrian Kreye

THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
A Talk with Alva Noë

HOW KEVIN BACON CURED CANCER
Steven Strogatz & Albert-László Barabási

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Oppenheimer the Opera:
A review of Doctor Atomic
Michael Shermer

THE TIMES
Ben Macintyre on a people with no history, no fiction and no sense of left or right

THE GUARDIAN
The Power of Speech
Patrick Barkham

SLATE
Does Religion Make You Nice?
By Paul Bloom

LOS ANGELES TIMES
McCain's science earmark error
By Lawrence M. Krauss

HARVARD MAGAZINE
What Makes the Human Mind?
By Ashley Pettus

WALL STREET JOURNAL
A New Dawn
Bjørn Lomborg, Ian McEwan

Edge 265—November 14, 2008
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