On Owen Glendower Day, Raj Patel testified charmingly on the crisis of the world food system, with reference to Terry Gilliam's “Time Bandits.” Justine Sharrock got inside the lives of U.S. soldiers who worked at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Gordy Slack reported on how Kuhnian paradigms compete in practice at the level of a Pennsylvanian school board. Anna Mantzaris described a weekend in the lives of people with unusual phobias, predicting how things would turn out for them. Hank Pellissier foretold how in vitro meat would change the future.

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