Race, Prison, and the Reshaping of America

From the Boston Review:
According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London, the United States—with five percent of the world’s population—houses 25 percent of the world’s inmates. Our incarceration rate (714 per 100,000 residents) is almost 40 percent greater than those of our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). [...]

Encephalon: The Human Brain Blogging Carnival

Topics include:
Magnetoreception, cellular senescence in Alzheimer’s Disease, and how the use of DNA microarrays is providing insights into human brain evolution …
And more!
(Hat Tip: Neurophilosophy)