Clement Levallois (Erasmus): Why Were Biological Analogies in Economics "A Bad Thing"? Edith Penrose's Battles Against Social Darwinism and McCarthyism. Sreedhari D. Desai and Francesca Gino (Harvard): The Return to Innocence: Nursery Rhymes, Soft Toys, and Everyday Morality. From Zine Library, sexploration! An interactive, basic introduction to sex-positive education. A review of The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Limits of Nations and the Pursuit of a New Politics by Mark Malloch Brown, How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance by Parag Khanna, and How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly — And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo (and more and more). Going viral: Although vaccines have saved countless lives, a fierce debate over their use — from swine flu to HPV for cervical cancer — now rages around the world as an anti-vaccine movement rises. Why Transylvanian chickens have naked necks: Genetic mutation gives "churkeys" bare necks, study shows. A review of Before Forgiveness: The Origin of a Moral Idea by David Konstan. "Ethical wealth" a contradiction: Can the accumulation of personal wealth be a positive force in the world, or is the good that can be done by rich individuals outweighed by the negative effects that extreme disparities of wealth have on society? A review of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson. A review of The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understand What Happens When We Write and Read Novels by Orhan Pamuk. A Simone de Beauvoir revival looks again at her and Jean-Paul Sartre. An interview with David Anderegg, author of Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America (and more). GOOD asks the experts: Is the "Paleolithic Diet" really better?
