From Portugal's Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais, how can a "critical border thinking" that envisages a "transmodern world" moves us beyond Eurocentrism? From First Principles, an article on Edmund Husserl and the crisis of Europe; and like H.L. Mencken, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway, and other original Americans, Ray Bradbury had the advantage of never attending college. Voters choose, but on the basis of what? An excerpt from Rick Shenkman's Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter. From The Boston Globe's "Ideas", a look at how Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction. Inside jokes: Science writer Jim Holt explores why we laugh. Harvard historian Steven Shapin says our image of scientists is all wrong. Here are 5 myths about the bust that will follow

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