1. How to teach Vice Presidents history. (It’s better than invasions)

2. Why is Mugabe at the World Food Summit?

3. Iran’s blogosphere

4. Whither the development experts? Rodrik and Wolf on Spence and Easterly. Oh, and my take.

5. Rodrik on the Boston Review‘s Africa symposium

6. A northern Uganda photo-voice project

7. Law of unintended consequences as illustrated by Ernie and Bert

8. A theory of life, the universe, and everything: time to give up?

9. Maids stroke your ears in Japan?

10. Playwright and Czech President Vaclav Havel on the debacle in Burma