[New Scientist]
A new computer program models one way in which religion may have evolved. If a person is willing to sacrifice for an abstract god then people feel like they are willing to sacrifice for the community, says James Dow, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oakland University who wrote the program.

[Wired]
Worst. Hire. Ever. Time to boycott The Huffington Post.

[Miller-McCune]
Does the government have a role in maximizing societal happiness?

[Times Online]
In Britain, fortune-tellers will now have to tell customers that what they offer is "for entertainment only" and not "experimentally proven."

[Rolling Stone]
With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.

[The New Republic]
Steven Pinker on "The Stupidity of Dignity."

[BBC News]
Huge investment in closed-circuit TV technology has failed to cut UK crime.

[Newsweek]
Is the United States making itself irrelevant in the world?