From Studies in Social Justice, a special issue on security, exclusion, and social justice, including David Roger Mutimer (York): My Critique is Bigger than Yours: Constituting Exclusions in Critical Security Studies. Why on earth is seal hunting so unpopular? Bradley Doucet wants to know. Critique of Impure Reason: All hail the scholarship of Jean-Baptiste Botul; Scott McLemee looks into a case of philosophical fact-checking (and more and more on BHL). The greatest literary hoax ever?: A French philosopher has been caught out by a literary prank, but it's nothing on the tale of the forgotten artist Nat Tate. From The Hill’s new feature "The Story Behind the Bill", a look at legislation you may not have heard about and the people inspiring it. Why is braille dying?: In an age of audiobooks, only 10 percent of blind kids learn it — but listening isn't the same as reading. From Adbusters, what do you see: Is your brain East or West?; and East-West: Good-evil, right-wrong? From Popular Science, an article on the quest to read the human mind; and a look at how robots display predator-prey co-evolution, evolve better homing techniques. From Popular Mechanics, humans have feared a robotic uprising since the machines first appeared in science fiction; today, experts caution against a more insidious threat — we might like living with them too much; and a look at the 8 evil forms of AI that gave robots a bad name. A library is no longer a mere home for books, but a wired-up information center: A review of This Book Is Overdue! by Marilyn Johnson (and more and more).
