From LRB, where is my mind? Jerry Fodor reviews Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark. From TLS, why we really do need to know the amazing truth about evolution, and the equally amazing intellectual dishonesty of its enemies: Richard Dawkins reviews Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True (and more); and a review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin. From TED, Elizabeth Gilbert on a different way to think about creative genius. An episode highlights a great fear that the Internet, with its emphasis on minute-to-minute competition, is undermining the values of the print culture. Long live philosophers! As any good analyst would point out, that's not just a spirited apostrophe — it's a fact. From TPMtv, an interview with Joseph Stiglitz. From The Daily Beast, an interview with Dean Baker on the economic stimulus package; it doesn't matter what the GOP says about the stimulus package or how they vote on it — if the economy is better off in four years, they lose; and is there a stimulus package that can save our sex lives? From THES, a review of Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money by Christian Smith, Michael O. Emerson and Patricia Snell; and a review of Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities by Bruce L.R. Smith, Jeremy D. Mayer and A. Lee Fritschler.
