Jane Yakowitz (Brooklyn): Tragedy of the Data Commons. D. Wade Hands (Puget Sound): Normative Rational Choice Theory: Past, Present, and Future. Extreme How To Skills: Start here, then move on to more DIY fun — you can do this! Malls of a certain age: Greg Beato on the shopping mall — a look back. How free is your will? A clock face, advanced neurosurgery — and startling philosophical questions about the decision to act. A review of The Novel: An Introduction by Christoph Bode. Protective Bargaining: Thomas A. Kochan on how to prevent the labor wars. Rethinking snow: How we could use the white stuff as architecture — or art. More people than ever before work in call centres in the UK but are they the modern-day equivalents of the factory production line? Weird Science: Nick Pinto on how a bogus child sex trafficking study fooled some of the most respected media outlets in the country. A review of The Oxford Companion to the Book (and more). From McSweeney's, James Warner on the future of books. From the BBC, here is a brief history of time zones. From Big Think, when is a prostitute not a prostitute? Politics by other means: We've allowed the judicial election system to be overrun by politics, and that's bad for democracy. “People publishing their passions” or mass print, one magazine at a time: MagCloud marries print expertise and Cloud services. Hate crimes against people with disabilities are widespread and often involve extraordinary levels of sadism. The power of lonely: What we do better without other people around. Can Tarzan ever escape his own origins in early twentieth-century America, a creation soaked in the racial, gender, and other politics of its time? A review of Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization by John Searle. Anthony Grafton on the Cronon Affair: Wisconsin answers.
