A new issue of Human Affairs is out. William Beaver (RMU): The Failed Promise of Nuclear Power. From The Dark Mountain Project, an interview with with David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. The birth of power dressing: Why the Renaissance was a turning point in people’s attitudes to clothes and their appearance. All science fiction looks towards the future of our race, but that is a broad brush — but some of science fiction is really just the simple reiteration of Luddite fears. Vanity Fair profiles Julian Assange, the man who spilled the secrets. What if WikiLeaks' dream of open society became reality? Maria Bustillos on our desperate, 250-year-long search for a gender-neutral pronoun. Picking the Wrong Witch: Dubravka Ugresic creates exquisite art from the pain of war and exile. Why we must own up to the human cost of our obsession with cheap clothes: 100 Bangladeshi workers died in a fire, just the latest tragedy in a country where 40 million toil for a pittance to keep our high street shelves stocked. How did the Jimmy Choo label become a $200 million business in just a decade? A review of The Jimmy Choo Story: Power, Profits and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe by Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira de Rosen. Shami Chakrabarti on Human Rights: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a thinly veiled metaphor for the War on Terror.
