From Popular Science, an article on geoengineering: Are weather machines really the answer? In anarchist circles there are often discussions about either a gradual transition or a sudden collapse of society that can be replaced with anarchism — here's a modern example where this has happened, Albania. A review of Alger Hiss and the Battle for History by Susan Jacoby. Robert O. Paxton reviews The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation by Frederic Spotts, Art of the Defeat: France 1940–1944 by Laurence Bertrand Dorleac, and Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1941–1944 by Kirrily Freeman. Mug shot nation: Humiliation without due process is no laughing matter. People with more than enough have an immediate and personal obligation to help those living in extreme poverty, says Peter Singer (and more and more). Death doesn't lie: Death masks promise a truthful representation of the departed. Not in Our Backyard: Can Vermont towns tell registered sex offenders where to live? Please salute Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.