Sophie Fuggle (KCL): Secularizing the Remnant: Foucault and Paul. From Liberty, Bob Marcus on Robbing Hood and the undeserving rich and the uncanny parallels between America and Sherwood Forest. Logically absurd and contradictory: In honing your home logic skills, try reducing any argument to its basic premise at the extremes of its subject. From Reset, a philosophical history of "fanaticism" from Martin Luther to the present. Ours is an age of the unexpected, the extraordinary, the uncanny — what better time to resurrect the stories of Ambrose Bierce? The reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman has turned down a million-dollar prize for solving one of the most difficult problems in mathematics. A review of Strange Fruit by Kenan Malik. The Long Now Orrery is a modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock. Monkeys, babies, and “awesome” science: An interview with Laurie Santos. From Duke magazine, as a result of efforts to provide a level playing field for NCAA member institutions, policies governing college sports have become increasingly Byzantine — interpreting them has become an industry unto itself; look at her now: Kara DioGuardi’s tuneful trajectory — singer, songwriter, record producer, and judge on American Idol; and an article on the university's official color, how it was chosen, and why it never seems to look the same. Arthur magazine has a map of heaven. An interview with "infamous Internet Superintelligence" Vox Day, author of The Return of the Great Depression. He's the media don who makes liberals bristle — now Niall Ferguson is rewriting economics. A look at 15 feisty small presses and the books you're going to want from them. An excerpt from Immortality and the Law of the Dead: The Rising Power of the American Dead by Ray D. Madoff.
