From Contexts, an article on the annual rankings of universities and their programs. You think math gives you anxiety? A review of Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor and Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung by Arthur I. Miller (and more and more and more). A review of A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart. Building a Temple to Math: Glen Whitney is on a quest to give the field of mathematics the museum it deserves. A review of Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley. Gangs of D.C.: Power is sexy in the nation's capital. A review of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon (and more and more and more and more; and more from Bookforum). The age of expeditions is over: Times have moved on since the days of colonial exploration, and so should the way the Royal Geographical Society funds and organises its research. Seth Godin on the tribes we lead. Good and powerful ideas have a tendency to spread wildly and destructively; Alec Ryrie ponders the many ways Darwinism has been used and abused and feels just a bit queasy.

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