Malcolm Gladwell takes aim at a new book by Chris Anderson called "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" in this week's The New Yorker magazine. Get it while it's free.

Gladwell refutes Anderson's assertion that "information wants to be free" -- "Amazon want information ... to be free, because that way Amazon makes more money. Why are the self-interested motives of powerful companies being elevated to a philosophical principle?"

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This is just plain cool -- a 400x-magnified image of an ant comprised of 400 photos taken with a scanning electron microscope.

I just came across this documentary featuring the late Sufi writer Idries Shah. "Dreamwalkers" covers such topics as conditioning, unconscious brainwashing, the function of ritual in society, the human nutritional need for attention, how we learn, confined thinking, and the stories of Mulla Nasrudin. (It is split into 10 parts -- the whole thing is under an hour long.)