From Anthropoetics, towards an enlightened form of doomsaying: An article on rational choice before the Apocalypse. From Arena, Simon Cooper on academic Darwinism, the (logical) end of the Dawkins Era; and climate change is not the basic issue: The technoscience–capitalism convergence has supercharged climate change; we need a movement to tackle that. The carnivore's dilemma: A review of books about beef. From Rolling Stone, an article on getting to know David Foster Wallace; and Block the Vote: Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? Nuts about ACORN: Believing in vote fraud may be dangerous to a democracy's health. From Splice Today, an article on the GOPs brainwashing tactics. The Richardson Report: Here are 57 lies the Republican

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