Blair Fix (York): Rethinking Profit: How Redistribution Drives Growth. Jose Gaspar (Porto): New Economic Geography: History and Debate. Jacquelyn Shaw (Dalhousie): Of Mitochondria and Men: Why Brain Death is Not the Death of the Human “Organism as a Whole”. Christopher Smith (Belmont): Consciousness and Futility: A Proposal for a Legal Redefinition of Death. Living forever, the right way: Through the Immortality Project, researchers aim to answer the moral and biological questions surrounding extending human life spans. Kathleen Horton on how the idea of the “supermodel” came to be. Zen and the Art of Double Entry Bookkeeping: Andrew Benedict-Nelson reviews The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations by Jacob Soll. From the IAPSS’s A Different View blog, Sergiu Delcea on the Star Wars Saga, Part 1: The Empire between theocracy and secularization; and Part 2: Who/what exactly were the Sith and what did they mean for Star Wars politics? Growing meat in labs could cut hunger, tackle climate change and end animal slaughter, but creator Professor Mark Post says the biggest beef will be convincing consumers. From Guernica, Ismail Khalidi interviews journalist Max Blumenthal on the rise of Israeli extremism. William Morgan on the woeful decline in American license plate design. Ruth Graham on gambling, an American love/hate story: Behind the Massachusetts casino kerfuffle is a country that’s always been torn about whether to trust Lady Luck.
