Take your work life to the next level

From Free Inquiry, can we survive? A look at the changes required to deal effectively with global warming. A review of The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters by Charles Perrow. From Wired, a look at the 14 grand engineering challenges of the 21st century. From Cafe Babel, pornography, defecation, plastination: today's aesthetic creations push disgust to the limits. The Joy of Sex has had a makeover, but what is there possibly left to know? Campus sexperts: Erotic magazines run by students at elite colleges have prospered, so why are they having less sex? Here are five ways to take your work life to the next level—and none of them require another student loan. How Harvard students perceive rednecks: The neural basis for prejudice. A review of Understanding Moore's Law: Four Decades of Innovation. The introduction to Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism by Kent E. Calder. EJ Dionne on faith and politics after the Religious Right (and more Souled Out by Dionne). Maverick vs. Iceman: Jonathan Chait on the cold calculations of the Straight Talker. Here's what Dems need to know about John McCain. A review of Disadvantage by Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit. A review of The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning by Bruce Louden.