A new issue of Transformative Works and Cultures is out. Zara Zimbardo (CIIS): Thinking Twice: Uses of Comedy to Challenge Islamophobic Stereotypes. Noel B. Salazar (Leuven): To Be or Not to Be a Tourist: The Role of Concept-Metaphors in Tourism Studies. Christopher Brennan (Tampere): Backpackers or Working Holiday Makers? Working Tourists in Australia. Jorn Sonderholm (Aalborg): A Critique of an Argument against Patent Rights for Essential Medicines. Celeste M. Condit (Georgia): Insufficient Fear of the “Super-flu”? The World Health Organization’s Global Decision-Making for Health. Mark A. Rothstein (Louisville): From SARS to Ebola: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Modern Quarantine. C.D.C. projects best and worst outcomes for Ebola (and more). Siobhan O’Grady on how colonial lines are drawn again for Ebola aid. From magCulture, Sarah Snaith reports on the conference Modern Magazine 2014 (and part 2, part 3, and part 4). Duck sex, aesthetic evolution, and the origin of beauty: An interview with Richard Prum. Florida State University’s next president will be John Thrasher, a Republican state senator and former speaker of the House who is also chairman of Florida Governor Rick Scott’s re-election campaign, a political insider without professional higher education experience. Should the Philosophical Gourmet Report continue? In case Love Jihad existed: Tarushikha Sarvesh on how the real issue is gender, not community. Alex Williams on the paleo lifestyle: The way, way, way back. The soul of a censor: An excerpt from Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature by Robert Darnton. Ingrid D. Rowland on the fall of the former Vice-Pope, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
