Finding new love and other experiences

From The Economist, here are four reports from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. How to be a better browser: Can a new filtering program cure the Web's information overload? What do the men who visit prostitutes think about what they do? Ray Kurzweil is famous for uncannily accurate predictions, and now he's talking of putting nanobots in our brains. Do animals think like autistic savants? They don't, despite the "savant-like" behaviour many show. A review of Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today by Enoch Callaway. New research helps explain why finding new love and other experiences don't always meet expectations. A review of The Ethics Toolkit: A Compendium of Ethical Concepts and Methods by Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl. An excerpt from Nick Davies' Flat Earth News (and more and more and more and more). Finally, a social networking site aimed at the cranky old-school reporters who were forever bitching about "those Internets". Before his mind was ravaged by mental illness and drugs, Harold L. Humes was a rising literary star and a co-founder of the Paris Review. Judy Blume's lessons in love: Her explicit novels about the rites of adolescence are loved by teenage girls the world over — and loathed by America's religious right. Is a liberal renaissance in the making?