From The Jury Expert, an article on juror stress and the hidden influence of the jury experience; and a look at how jury service makes us into better citizens. What do the novels of Jodi Picoult — and our obsession with child-peril lit — tell us about how we really feel about raising kids? Sex sells — but shouldn’t the facts be right first? All Quiet: Were postwar American Jews really "silent" about the Holocaust? From Cosmos, in many fields, senior researchers have entered a new era, at last accessing the underlying complexity of the systems they study; and should we fear self-aware machines? Robert Samuelson reviews The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson and The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman. How can Charles Dickens come back if he never went away? The answer to too many people in some places and too few in others is to allow women to take care of themselves, then everything else tends to work out. Is the foodie movement keeping us from enjoying, or even attempting, to cook? Or: How much time does Martha Stewart think I have, anyway? The Genius Index: An article on scientist Jorge Hirsch's crusade to rewrite reputation rules. Warrior on Poverty: Michael Harrington’s “culture of poverty” thesis was an idea with unintended consequences.
