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A new issue of The Washington Diplomat is out. Michael Hauskeller on the moral status of post-persons. Will democracy take root in Myanmar? Joshua Kurlantzick wonders. Your brain, by the numbers: Somehow, the brain is greater than the sum of its parts. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to allow the Society of St. Pius X, a controversial, ultraconservative splinter group, back into the Catholic Church. Pope names composer Hildegard of Bingen a saint. Thanks to the Congressional Drone Caucus, unmanned aerial vehicles may soon be a common sight in American airspace. Should men and women be segregated in professional sports? Adrian Chen on why James Holmes has fans on the Internet. Ludicrous Times op-ed forgets entire year of Wall Street history. A review of Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution by Mary Eberstadt. Meet Inaki Osa Goikoetxea, the Michael Jordan of Jai Alai.