From PS: Political Science and Politics, a symposium on the Politics of the Superhero. From Interpersona, Mercedes Tappe, Lisamarie Bensman, Kentaro Hayashi, and Elaine Hatfield (Hawaii): Gender Differences in Receptivity to Sexual Offers: A New Research Prototype; Stephen Reysen (Texas A&M) and Iva Katzarska-Miller (Transylvania): Playing Moderately Hard to Get; and Andrew Dix (Middle Tennessee State): A New Era of Courtship: Let Me Contemplate Our Speed-Date to Determine the Interconnectedness of Conversation and Physical Attraction. The war over Wolf of Wall Street: Does Scorsese's would-be masterpiece glorify greed and debauchery or attack them, and how do we know for sure? Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives. From The Believer, Sarah Marshall revisits the myths and media narratives behind the off-ice melodrama of Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and the 1994 winter Olympics. Can physicists find time travelers on Facebook? Two researchers just completed what was perhaps the most comprehensive search for people from the future so far. Bruce Barcott on the Great Marijuana Experiment: As Washington and Colorado create rules and regulations for selling legal marijuana, in many other cities across the country pot arrests are near record highs. Dick Metcalf, a longtime columnist for Guns & Ammo, questioned when the regulation of guns became infringement of the right to bear arms — he was quickly fired, squelching any debate.
