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Experience is real

Fredrick E. Vars (Alabama): Delineating Sexual Dangerousness. A museum of virtual media: The brain doesn't much care whether an experience is real. A review of America the Philosophical by Carlin Romano (and more and more and more and more and more). What Facebook knows: The company's social scientists are hunting for insights about human behavior; what they find could give Facebook new ways to cash in on our data — and remake our view of society. A review of The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources by Michael T. Klare. A college football playoff could mean philosophical, practical shift from BCS. A review of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex by Elizabeth Reis. George Scialabba on Plutocratic Vistas: In truth, American democracy has been a long time dying. A review of How Women Represent Women: Political Parties, Gender and Representation in the State Legislatures by Tracy L. Osborn.