Lauren Feldman (American), Anthony Leiserowitz (Yale), and Edward W. Maibach (George Mason): The Impact of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report on Public Attentiveness to Science and the Environment. Birtherism, the debt ceiling, climate change, evolution: Are Republicans losing their grip on reality? (and more). The online world of female desire: For women indulging their curiosity, Internet erotica is less about flesh than about finding Mr. Right. From Dissent, a symposium on the killing of Osama bin Laden. A sexist pig myth: The scandals of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger raise the question — does power turn regular guys into sexual predators? (and more) The Secret Sharer: Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? Jane Mayer investigates. From the Fine Books Blog, L. D. Mitchell on the Library of Useful Knowledge. When Doomsday isn't, believers struggle to cope. Harold Camping needs to publicly apologize for being wrong about his doomsday prediction and leading people astray, said a Southern Baptist leader. A review of Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed. From Egypt to Syria, tensions over religion and clans have threatened uprisings that once seemed to promise a new sense of national identity built on the idea of citizenship. Roseanne Barr was a sitcom star, a creator and a product, the agitator and the abused, a domestic goddess and a feminist pioneer — that was twenty years ago, but as far as she’s concerned, not much has changed. The Immortal Horizon: With an elevation gain twice that of Everest and a host of outsize wildlife, the Barkley Marathons may be the world's most difficult race. A look at why religious conservatives are obsessed with Israel. Is New Jersey's Xanadu megamall worth saving?
