Thursday's Notes

The Biblical Studies Carnival for August 2010 is up at Jim West's Zwinglius Redivivus. Four Stone Hearth C, the anthropology/archaeology festival, is up at Martin Rundkvist's Aardvarchaeology.

Stuart Jeffries reviews Kathryn Schulz's Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error for the Guardian, 28 August.

Paul A. J. Davis,"Rochester's salacious textual history," TLS, 1 September, reviews John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's The Poems and ‘Lucina's Rape', ed., by Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher.

Ruth Scurr,"John Aubrey and the roots of the Royal Society," TLS, 1 September, reviews"John Aubrey and the Development of Experimental Science," an exhibit at the Bodleian Library, and William Poole's John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning.

Howard Falcon-Lang,"Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle," BBC, 1 September, explores the artificial ecosystem that Darwin and Joseph Hooker created.

Barron YoungSmith,"Warriors, Hot and Cold," The Book, 2 September, reviews Nicholas Thompson's The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War.

Peter Green,"The Stranger from Within," TNR, 1 September, reviews John Carey's William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies.

Michael Joseph Gross,"Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury," Vanity Fair, October; and Gross,"Sarah Palin's Shopping Spree: Yes, There's More...," VF, 1 September, explores the shabby world of Sarah Palin.