From Technology Review, can aging be solved? Gerontology pioneer Leonard Hayflick discusses the biological causes of aging; and Ray Kurzweil says that exponential advances will allow us to intervene in the aging process. A review of Parallel Empires: The Vatican and the United States — Two Centuries of Alliance and Conflict by Massimo Franco and Against the Grain: Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace by George Weigel. A review of Wolfram Kaiser's Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union. How do we know we're not in a cult? Here are some warning signs. A review of Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be — With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn by P. J. O'Rourke (and more and more and more and more). An article on George Hamilton: "Please don't think I just went out with famous women". Street Farmer: Can Will Allen make the inner city the next front in the good-food movement? The wickedness of the long hot shower: James Garvey argues that climate change is a serious moral problem — for you. Beyond abstraction: An article on moving the public on climate action. A look at the future of 5 telescopes in space.
