From a new issue of The Jury Expert, Yoel Inbar and David Pizarro (Cornell): Grime and Punishment: How disgust influences moral, social, and legal judgments. From CT, a review of Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent by Alberto A. Martinez; and a review of Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire and The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by Karl Sabbagh. Jeremy Stangroom on Edmund Burke, the great conservative. Software that aids thought isn’t cheating; it’s a legitimate part of the creative process. A review of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture by John M. Hagedorn. From Bookforum, John Freeman reviews Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun. A review of The End of Ethics in a Technological Society by Lawrence E. Schmidt and Scott Marratto. Three innovators have created an approach that has greatly reduced — and just might end — homelessness. From IHE, new analysis rejects idea that professors whose research is influenced by their politics necessarily bring the same politics into the classroom; and given the competition, acceptance to selective colleges has become almost a random process — why not end the myth, and admit qualified students using a raffle?

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