Weekend Edition: 9-22

Bulletin Board

• The 2012 South Dakota Festival of Books kicks off Friday. You can download a program or register for the 10th anniversary event.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

• Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (“The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were never designed to answer”)
• Free Speech in the Age of YouTube (“The riots [over the film Innocence of Muslims] force us to ask how deeply we are committed to our own constitutional values. Are we willing to stand by them despite the damage they inflict on our foreign interests?”) (via)

Bookish Linkage

• The man who turned his home into a public library (via)
• The six mistakes of reading

Nonbookish Linkage

• Isn’t everyone “potentially deceased“?
• A scientific study of last meals on death row

Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller), “The Serenity Now,” Seinfeld