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Us-Them News

The paperback edition of Us and Them will be published next month by the University of Chicago Press. It has a new preface that brings the focus up to late 2007. Author's copies have just arrived here and it looks terrific.

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Huffington Post

John Horgan's Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute

Carl Zimmer's `Loom'

Freakonomics

Derek Bickerton

Recent Writings

Essay

Eliot Spitzer and Psychologists' Changing Concept of Conformity
Is it always the lone maverick who's right, when s/he refuses to play along? That's how American psychologists have taught it, but recently they have been taking another look at conformism.

Fiction

The Punishment Fits the Crime
A genomic nightmare

Other Species

A piece about migrating birds, New York City, and the scientists who study them both --