From Carnegie Ethics, can Antarctica be preserved? The introduction to Why Are There So Many Banking Crises? The Politics and Policy of Bank Regulation by Jean-Charles Rochet. Here's a curse on mean-spirited intellectuals and literary scholars above all; and an article on the perils of popularising science. Humans have altered Earth so much that scientists say a new epoch in the planet's geologic history has begun, from the Holocene to the Anthropocene (and more). It may sound like science fiction, but it’s only a matter of time before the world’s militaries learn to wield the planet itself as a weapon. Tango goes inside the 2008 candidates' marriages (an more from Slate). Feeling short-changed by the self-help books he consulted, Tal Ben-Shahar built his own route to wellbeing. A new study suggests

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