Glenda Sluga (Sydney): UNESCO and the (One) World of Julian Huxley. Some men now spend as much on a watch as they would on a car — are they getting value? A review of Islands of Privacy by Christena Nippert-Eng. A review of Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken (and more). The secret of The Secret is that is that it’s no secret. A new study analysing how complex, highly-evolved societies are organised in nature has found that it is workers that play a pivotal role in creating well-ordered societies where conflict is minimised. An excerpt from Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat. So far, Al-Qaeda has come close to pulling off several spectacular attacks but has suffered unlucky breaks that have caused each attack to fail; however they only have to get lucky once. An article on resilience, catastrophising and positive emotions. A review of Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize with a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch. From the Mises Institute, what's wrong with "Contemporary Classical"? Subsidies. From Vice, black people vs. white people: Who's funnier? Likeable anarchist, modest Ubermensch, atheist preacher — Jonathan Ree is delighted by Friedrich Nietzsche, the paradoxical philosopher. How Vernon Fisher came to K-Mart Conceptualism. A review of In Motion: The Experience of Travel by Tony Hiss. Scott Adams on bad management as the perfect stimulus: If no one had a hamster-brained sociopath for a boss, who would start new businesses? Know Your Meme takes a look at shock sites. Zadie Smith reviews You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier. Unleash the iPads of war: Military maps now apps. Speech and harm: What is at the root of the power of slurs to cause unease, shock and pain? A study suggests Pompeiians were flash-heated to death, with "no time to suffocate": Victims' lifelike poses among clues that ash was not the key killer. Henry Kissinger has a Twitter page and follows Bookforum, Granta, and n+1?
