Featured in this issue: Bionomics > Economics; Stephen Collis on innovation and disaster; Scott Atran on the Birth of Hamas; Darren Fleet on financial algorithms gone wild; Franco "Bifo" Berardi on imagination; Gareth Peirce on why we torture; Pankaj Mishra on the CIA in Iran; Binyavanga Wainaina on Saving the Children of Africa; Welcoming in the Year of the Snake
