From Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, a special issue on the ethics of science journalism. From Seed, conservationists may wish money were no object, but if nature is to survive, economic incentives and biological imperatives must align; and recent studies on the effects of the internet and other new media on brain plasticity raises an open research question: Is Google making us smarter? It's unfocused, random, and extremely good at what it does: How we can learn from a baby's brain. From History Today, a look at how Friedrich Engels financed the research behind his friend Karl Marx’s epic critique of the free market, Das Kapital. Engels was a strangely enlightened sexist: A review of The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt (and more and more and more and more and more). From n+1, Patrick Harrison had always dismissed Michael Hardt, with the kind of macho contempt that comes from reading too much Zizek, as a crypto-liberal who was too politically weak (and more on the conference "On the Idea of Communism"). Clive Crook is in search of an Obama doctrine. The Great Game Moves North: As the Arctic melts, countries vie for control. An interview with Greenland's Per Berthelsen on how to build a new energy economy and still hunt caribou.
