The inaugural issue of Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences is out. From the Journal of Conflictology, David Bueno (Barcelona): Aggressivity, Violence, Sociability and Conflict Resolution: What Genes Can Tell Us. Why the law is a messy haphazard human enterprise: Maybe it wasn’t the ideal subject for cruise ship passengers. Putting poppies in the gas tank: An article on Michael Bester's quest to tap Afghanistan’s taboo biofuel. How great entrepreneurs think: Think inside the (restless, curious, eager) minds of highly accomplished company builders. Major critics speak on how to keep book reviews relevant. Rhetorical devices: A look inside what makes language work. Electrified sand, exploding balloons: The long and colorful history of weather manipulation. From Wired, an article on Getting Things Done guru David Allen and his cult of hyperefficiency. From THES, a review of Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity by Alastair J.L. Blanshard. A look at how the fairy tale is struggling to live happily ever after. Blackwater founder secretly backing Somali militia: Erik Prince supports private security in Africa to override rampant piracy and Islamic radicalism. Why you're probably less popular than your friends: Where averages and individual perspectives diverge. A review of The Origins of Responsibility by Francois Raffoul. A review of That's Offensive! Criticism, Identity, Respect by Stefan Collini. A review of Humorists: From Hogarth to Noel Coward by Paul Johnson (and more). From Thought Catalog, Leigh Alexander on How to Be 1990s; and Juliana & Evan were the 90s Ultimate Power Couple. Everybody Counts: A guy goes door-to-door for the census and discovers democracy. A look at 10 Christian names you don't really hear.
