From Vanity Fair, forget hanging chads, 9/11, and those missing W.M.D.’s; a massive new conspiracy book proves that the original unanswerable question is still the juiciest: who shot J.F.K.? (and more on what might have been). The great divide: The discipline of anthropology has split firmly into two factions - - social anthropologists and evolutionary anthropologists; can the warring sides be reconciled? No gene is an island: Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness. Financial Reversals: Everything bad is good again. An article on the art of translation. From Salon, an appreciation of Michelle Obama's beauty — and booty. Michelle's best assets: Out of all her stellar qualities, why go there? In defense of Generation Y: The recent presidential campaign upended a number of common misconceptions about the “young voter” demographic. Sister Souljah rejects any labels on her literary output. A review of The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government by Thomas N. Bisson. How many blogs does the world need? Michael Kinsley wants to know. From Vox, an article on uncertainty, climate change, and the global economy. An interview with notorious lawyer Jacques Verges: "There is no such thing as absolute evil".
