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Smarter than you think

From Kyoto Journal, a special issue on The Power of an Ideal: Japan’s Article 9 and the Imagination. From the Journal of Sustainable Development, Don Clifton (South Australia): Representing A Sustainable World — A Typology Approach and Security and a Sustainable World; and Nguyen Chi Nghia (Tohoku): Management Research about Solutions for the Eradication of Global Poverty: A Literature Review. A review of My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz. What an epistemologically conscious "scientific" history (of nation) would have needed: A review of Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media, and the Arts. A review of Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed. Smarter than you think: An I.B.M.'s supercomputer will challenge Jeopardy! champions. An excerpt from Outnumbered: Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets by Cormac O'Brien. Once a reliable Western ally, Turkey is now going its own way in the Middle East — and nobody in Washington or Brussels knows what to do about it. A look at 5 horrible diseases that changed the world (for the better). Beware of Deficit Hawks: Is it too soon for governments to cut spending? “Suddenly hot prefix” isn’t a phrase you utter in everyday conversation, but if you’ve noticed the rise of geo- lately, you might be tempted. A review of American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War by Christian G. Fritz. A look at how subtitles in movies scrape out their own fictitious space. An excerpt from Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class by Belinda Edmondson. A review of Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons by Bennett W. Helm.