From Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, a special issue on the ethics of science journalism. From Seed, conservationists may wish money were no object, but if nature is to survive, economic incentives and biological imperatives must align; and recent studies on the effects of the internet and other new media on brain plasticity raises an open research question: Is Google making us smarter? It's unfocused, random, and extremely good at what it does: How we can learn from a baby's brain. From History Today, a look at how Friedrich Engels financed the research behind his friend Karl Marx’s epic critique of the free market, Das Kapital. Engels was a strangely enlightened sexist: A review of The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt (and more and more and more

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