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Democracy of images

John Kelsay (FSU): Just War, Jihad, and the Study of Comparative Ethics. Steven L. Schooner and Collin D. Swan (GWU): Contractors and the Ultimate Sacrifice. From CJR, a rocket’s trajectory: Scott Sherman on Marcus Brauchli at The Washington Post (and more); and keeping up with Chuck Todd: “I’m in a business where I’m not allowed to miss right now”. Michael Dirda reviews Listen to This by Alex Ross (and more). September 11th and the democracy of images: How New York’s worst day led to its greatest photography exhibit ever. Time will end in five billion years, physicists predict. Berlin has been many things: glamorous, decadent, war-torn, split in half, and now poor but sexy. Re-Imagining Society: Are we trapped by old ideas? In honor of the 50th anniversary of the International System of Units, PopSci is looking at the origin and continued preservation of five of our favorite standard units: The meter, the second, the candela, the mole and the kilogram. Little Black Books: Fifteen years ago, Moleskine bet on paper and won — now it ponders its future in the digital world. A review of Hobbes and the Law of Nature by Perez Zagorin (and more). The neuroscience of jazz: Pianist Vijay Iyer has found the sweet spot where his two loves — physics and jazz — intersect. From New Humanist, a review of God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam (and a response by Hannam). An interview with Kevin Kelly on technology: "The Unabomber was Right; the Amish, too" (and more and more: If you hate technology, you basically hate yourself). George Soros on the real danger to the economy. Washington’s abortive scientific renaissance: The new administration was expected to usher in a new era of scientific learning infusing government policy — it hasn’t exactly worked out that way.