From The Global Spiral, a special issue on the need for a new vision in science, including Roy Clouser (CNJ): A New Philosophical Guide for the Sciences: Ontology without Reduction; James W. Skillen (CPJ): Is a Science of Politics Possible?; Adolfo Garcia de la Sienra (Veracruzana): The Economic Sphere; Daniel F. M. Strauss (UFS): The Significance of Unity and Diversity for the Disciplines of Mathematics and Physics. Science and the arts need not be strangers: Fifty years ago C. P. Snow described the gulf between the two cultures — today we can be more optimistic about bridging it. A review of The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century by Jerome Kagan. A review of Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz. A review of Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe by James B. Kaler. A review of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). A review of The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward. A review of Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk. Learning to categorize the life on our planet is surprisingly difficult for the human mind. A review of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger. From New Scientist, here are 13 more things that don't make sense. Here are the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize winners.