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  • Why publish a book about Sigmund Freud in 2007, a time when many find him passe? MORE

  • Strap on that iPod if you must, but don't you ever regret the loss of silence in modern life? MORE

  • A new feminist book takes a look at society's hypersexualization of girls -- and the backlash. MORE

  • Cosmology questioned: While there is no alternative to the Big Bang theory, is that an adequate reason to accept it? MORE

  • What impact did Henry James' moving to France have on his fiction? MORE

  • The idea that adults should be playing with their kids is a modern invention, and not necessarily a good one. MORE

  • In the Skeptic, Scholar David Sloan Williams takes apart the bestselling book about religion, The God Delusion. MORE

  • Lucien Freud says he can tell when he's finished with a canvas -- it feels like someone else's painting. MORE

  • Photo essay: as climate change melts the permafrost, Arctic villages slip into the sea. MORE 

 • Polygyny can benefit women, while men do well from monogomy: strange truths of human nature. MORE