Crisis in Nigeria Dayo Olopade & Eliza Griswold Mar 11 + show topics A history of violence in Nigeria Is the source of the conflict religious or economic? Clan loyalties threaten national coherence Could the country split in two? How Nigeria produced the underwear bomber Seventy million youths with no access to education The Academy and the Academy Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner Mar 10 + show topics Why did it take so long to make a good Iraq war movie? Dan’s paean to Pixar The ivory tower vs. real-life experience Why it’s hard to bring together academics and policy makers After Iraqi elections, guarded optimism Heather to Dems: Run on national security in 2010 Degrees of Essential Mark Schmitt & Megan McArdle Mar 9 + show topics Is there a common thread in the New York Dem scandals? Megan defends lobbyists The idiots on the congressional finance committees The trouble with unemployment insurance What do the long-term unemployed most need? The inevitability/impossibility of passing health care reform weekly programs Science Saturday The Week in Blog UN Plaza Beyond Nature vs. Nurture Will Wilkinson & David Shenk Mar 9 + show topics David’s new book, “The Genius in All of Us” David: “The Bell Curve” is just wrong What IQ is and isn’t good for How Mozart made himself into Mozart What part of Michael Jordan’s greatness is due to his genes? Rethinking intelligence and economic inequality Board to Death William D. Cohan & John Gillespie Mar 8 + show topics John’s new book, “Money for Nothing” Want a sweet gig? Get on a corporate board! What should the boards of Lehman and Bear Stearns have done? How the financial reform bill can empower boards Why haven’t big shareholders taken a stand? Solutions to improve corporate governance Values Added: Hollywood Agents of God Gary Laderman & Anthea Butler Mar 7 + show topics Are movies the sacred texts of our time? Tiger Woods and modern absolution Buddhism in the champagne room Will “Avatar” be God at the Oscars? Prediction-Free Oscar Edition Alyssa Rosenberg & Latoya Peterson Mar 6 + show topics Why the Best Picture usually isn’t the best picture The Academy’s blind side: race in America “Precious” as Rorschach Test Dissing the Oscar campaign circuit Sci-fi cinema (bonus social commentary track) Mediocrity: In living TECHNICOLOR! Science Saturday: Earthquake Edition Ramon Arrowsmith & Mike Treder Mar 6 + show topics How earthquakes happen Haiti’s catastrophe vs. Chile’s catastrophe The nascent science of earthquake forecasting Danger zones that might surprise you How bad is the worst possible earthquake? Natural disasters and human responsibilities The Week in Blog: Unbaked Cake Bill Scher & Melissa Clouthier Mar 5 + show topics Conservatives apoplectic on health care reconciliation Liberal bloggers still split on supporting the compromise bill Melissa accuses Bill of suffering from DC delusion Sen. Bunning’s obstruction riles up both bases Liberals shed few tears for Rangel, Melissa defends Tom DeLay Is Sen. Lincoln’s primary challenger pulling one over on liberals? Clean Bedpan Edition Robert Wright & James Pinkerton Mar 4 + show topics Jim endorses Mickey Kaus for Senate Reforming education reform Jim: Fix health care by letting doctors admit their mistakes Bob’s case for death panels An original business model for curing cancer Israel’s Dubai assassination: bad policy or bad execution? The George Clooney and Meryl Streep of American Letters Walter Kirn & Susan Orlean Mar 3 + show topics Walter and Susan on having their books made into movies Is the book always better than the adaptation? What real people think of their cinematic incarnations Mixed feelings about getting Hollywood’s seal of approval Down with Avatar! The future of storytelling is up in the air

more diavlogs

Craig’s memoir, A Life Decoded

Craig’s elephant-shark piece, “Ancient Noncoding Elements Conserved in the Human Genome”

Craig’s article in Science, “Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another”

Carl on the meaning of life

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uncle ebeneezer: What does it really mean? 

uncle ebeneezer: Is Tom purposely trying to steer interest away from his profession? 

themightypuck: Bob the Baptist comes out. 

uncle ebeneezer: Will formulates a scenario where the terrorists, literally, win! 

sapeye: Hmmm, is Bob guilty of serious stereotyping? 

Stapler Malone: No, Bob. It’s not. Nothing ever is.  

d7greene: Lawrence Lessig knows a juice-boxer when he sees one. 

Toryentalist: Matt is great, Matt is great—listen and repeat. 

thouartgob: Joel’s elegant refutation of Bob’s point. 

uncle ebeneezer: George Johnson, hopeless romantic! 

themightypuck: Robert Wright, Asteroid Cowboy. 

bjkeefe: Spelling is fun-damental! 

nikkibong: The joy of taking stuff out of context. 

bjkeefe: Who stole Matthew’s tie? 

uncle ebeneezer: The Art of Subtlety. 

bjkeefe: Heather slaps the entire BhTV community. 

bjkeefe: Can anyone find a case where this is not ultimately Mickey's advice to Dems? 

Ken Davis: The racial blind taste test. 

Stapler Malone: Go forward, not backward; upward not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.... 

Simon Willard: Bob steps outside himself here. 

JonIrenicus: Puzzle spelled out. 

uncle ebeneezer: George's response here was absolutely priceless. 

graz: Bob takes Tom Jones down a peg. 

bjkeefe: Entry for a video dictionary: "unflappable." 

almostaquantum: Hooray: Jonah Goldberg dismisses the ticking time-bomb scenario.