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City living makes you smarter

From Fast Capitalism, William Leiss (Ottawa): Modern Science, Enlightenment, and the Domination of Nature: No Exit?; Hans Kellner (NCSU): William Leiss, Hera, and the Fate of Science; and John Zerzan on Urbanized Life. The laws of urban energy: An article on why city living makes you smarter. From the Journal of Population Research, a special issue on Globalization and Demographic Change, including John C. Caldwell (ANU): The Western Fertility Decline: Reflections from a Chronological Perspective; Sarah Harper (Oxford): Addressing the Implications of Global Ageing; and a review of Migration and Its Enemies: Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-State by Robin Cohen.  From Foreign Policy, a look at the five population trends that will do most to shape our world in the years to come.