From FP, are you tough enough for Hamas boot camp? From TNR, Jack Goldsmith reviews Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice by Eric Lichtblau; and a review of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) by Tom Vanderbilt (and more and more). A new state of mind: New research is linking dopamine to complex social phenomena and changing neuroscience in the process. Raising Bob Costas: Is memorizing sports trivia good for the brain? Rapping about CERN and bike racks: Two really nerdy instructional rap songs hit the Internets — is this the future of education? A review of So I Have Thought Of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald. Most authors have no control over their book covers, but some writers not only get to accept or reject designs, but also choose the designer. Is an unmade bed art? It's art to the person who thinks it expresses their life. A tall, cool drink of sewage: In the world’s driest places, the future of drinking water may flow from a wastewater-recycling plant. Stalin’s mass killings are often viewed as the acts of a deranged dictator, but violence may have been the Soviet leader’s rational attempt to avoid losing power in a revolution. Philip Sedgwick follows the horoscopes of McCain and Obama. Paul Roberts on the four barriers to the genetically-modified food revolution and why no one is talking about them.
