Paul C. Giannelli (Case Western): The Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham: Junk Science, an Innocent Man, and the Politics of Death. From Fast Company, an article on Ticketmaster, the most hated brand in America. A review of Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped by Dean Budnick and Josh Baron. It was only a matter of time before scholars would bone-up on modern pharmaceutical culture and give us The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World. With the pirates who plague the waters around the Horn of Africa, shipping companies are protecting their vessels with armed private security personnel — Der Spiegel joined one such ship as it ran the pirate gauntlet on the world's most important trade route. Can The Daily Dot become the Web's "hometown newspaper"? Jesse Bering on female ejaculation: The long road to non-discovery. Forty years in captivity: Austrian man allegedly abused daughters for decades. The Fixer: Streetwise sociologist Greg Scott guides reporters through the drug underworld. The first chapter from The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment by Pierre Saint-Amand. Annie Platoff, a librarian at UC Santa Barbara, is on a mission to find out what happened to the American flags that astronauts planted on the moon during the six lunar landings. A review of Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson. When spirituality kills: How should society regulate New Age gurus or Christian Scientists? J. C. Hallman reviews Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (and more and more and more and more and more). Will North America be the New Middle East? It’s yes or no for a climate-killing oil pipeline — and Obama gets to make the call.
