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Rex D. Glensy (Drexel): The Right to Dignity. Jolanta Reingarde (Vytautas Magnus): Heteronormativity and Silenced Sexualities at Work. Naughty by nature: What should we think of people whose addled brains are driving them to nymphomania? Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner on why most predictions are so bad — and what is actually being done about it. A review of books on old age and aging. That was then: Greg Beato on the art of the before-and-after photograph. Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? Politically incorrect claims require impossible evidence. A review of When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me? Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life by Saul Frampton. A look at 6 things our kids just plain won't get. The safest countries in the world: If you're looking to avoid natural disasters, you might consider moving to Estonia. Does the universe need God? Sean Carroll wonders. The Koch-Whore Archipelago: Mark Ames on how the billionaire Kochs screwed my scoop while screwing America. Robert Cristiano deconstructs Barack Obama. Why being straight is gay: If defining who you are as a heterosexual were as basic as figuring out your jean type at a mainstream retailer, that’d be easy. A review of Helvetica and the New York City Subway System by Paul Shaw. Canadian tar sands: Evan O'Neil on how there's no such thing as ethical oil (or nuclear power). Discovery Communications Inc. is launching a television network for rich guys and their toys called Velocity; the target audience is men with incomes of $150,000 a year and more: "We just felt like this was a space missing in the marketplace". Martin W. Lewis on the simplistic world-view of Thomas L. Friedman. According to the French government and California’s Imperial County, the official center of the world lies in the town of Felicia in California’s Sonora Desert.