A new issue of Education Next is out. From LRB, a review of Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida by Elisabeth Roudinesco. From The Smart Set, an article on the myriad benefits of toilets, and why the world needs more of them; and the large mammals are our closest relatives — so why is our relationship with them so tense? From Seed, how physicist Garrett Lisi published and vetted his revolutionary work signals the potential future of an open, transparent peer review process; and reviewing peer-review: ScienceBloggers discuss the advantages of open science and debate the necessity of the current peer-review system. Here are 6 sex myths as explained by science. If you’re American, geographically inclined and a bit of a stickler, East-West cartographic incongruity is a bit of an annoyance. From Reason, Brian Doherty on 40 years of free minds and free markets: An oral history of Reason; where did the Libertarian Party go wrong? A postmortem on Bob Barr's presidential run; and how the Second Amendment was restored: The inside story of how a gang of libertarian lawyers made constitutional history. How social pressure can drive eco-consciousness: It worked with smoking in the last decade — can social stigmatization persuade people to change their behavior with respect to the environment?
