From The Daily Beast, Joseph Wilson on Dick Cheney's torture hypocrisy; and Tina Brown on the quake at Conde Nast (and more on Portfolio). From Wired, a look at how the evolution of office spaces reflects changing attitudes toward work. Apologies to residents of the Lower East Side; Williamsburg, Brooklyn; and other hipster-centric neighborhoods — you are not as cool as you think, at least according to a new study that seeks to measure what it calls “the geography of buzz.” An interview with Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. A review of A Blueprint for a Safer Planet by Nicholas Stern. Is a high IQ a burden as much as a blessing? Sam Knight investigates. AC Grayling on brain science and the search for the self — and on the empty name of God. Has Britain become a society indifferent to beauty? The last book party: Gideon Lewis-Kraus on publishing drinks to a life after death. The end of evolution: Humans are undergoing a "grand averaging", argues Steve Jones, because the raw material for evolution has largely disappeared. More and more and more and more on Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne. Outlook: Extreme: As the planet warms, look for more floods where it’s already wet and deeper drought where water is scarce.
