Gayle Brewer and Charlene Riley (Central Lancashire): Height, Relationship Satisfaction, Jealousy, and Mate Retention. Julia Mensink (LSE): Poverty facts travelling between production and usage domains: How successful has the HDI been? Invasion of the pod car: The dream of personal rapid transit picks up speed. At one time, self-help books were considered a little odd; now they have moved into the mainstream and the new "science of happiness" has become a cultural orthodoxy. Naming the sky: The true story of one man's quest to give George Plimpton a permanent presence in orbit. From M/C Journal, an article on the promiscuous afterlife of Super 8. Exclusivity for all: Rob Walker on buying expensive luxury goods — along with an aura of virtuous thrift. A look at how concepts are born in the hippocampus. Tests on skull fragment cast doubt on Adolf Hitler suicide story. From The Exiled, Michael Moore didn’t give us The Answer in his twenty-year filmic harangue, because nobody knows The Answer, but he’s certainly identified the main problems and outlined a number of lively suggestions for action (and more); and is America the last sucker-nation on Earth? Nature's clones: A look at what twins have taught us. Monsters ink: How Maurice Sendak made the world safe for monsters, and vice-versa. Two new studies suggest older people have difficulty suppressing stereotypes, which means many may become prejudiced against their will. A review of Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World by Joscelyn Godwin. The new gender gap: Women are doing better in the recession — because men are doing worse.