From Popular Mechanics, here are 10 genius inventions we're still waiting for. Imagine you're a huge fan of an author for his writing, only to discover something deeply unpleasant about the man himself — what do you do? A Jesus for real men: What the new masculinity movement gets right and wrong. From Nerve, an interview with Lily Koppel, author of The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal. A review of The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture by Tilman Allert (and more from Bookforum). From America, a legal shift could alter the so-called separation between church and state — and a Roman Catholic majority on the United States Supreme Court may be the driving force behind it. Athletic Bilbao is Europe's most exotic football club, managing to keep itself in Spain's top division, while fielding players recruited exclusively from the Basque region — can it continue to resist globalization? If we ever make contact with intelligent aliens, we should be able to build a universal translator to communicate with them. Jonathan Raymond reviews Colin Harrison’s The Finder. A review of Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine and Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking. What happens to lost airport luggage? Bedtime stories: When it comes to erotica, you can judge a book between the covers.
