A new issue of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence is out: "Is a General Theory of Violence Possible?" From Edge, Nathan Wolfe on how to prevent a pandemic. Rebel Yelp: The replacement for newspapers isn’t Craigslist; it’s local social media. From Popular Science, is scientific ignorance environmental bliss? From The New Yorker, a review of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon. Simon Schama on America’s phobia of banks: In his mistrust of paper currency Andrew Jackson tapped into a pulsing vein of American insecurity about the moral character of money. Andrew Leonard on how obscene Wall Street salaries are proof of market failure. One nation, seven sins: Geographers measure propensity for evil in states, counties. From Utne, an aticle on the mountain that eats

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