Christopher F. Chabris,"Last-Minute Changes," WSJ, 12 February, and Noah Millman,"Happy Belated Birthday," The American Scene, 13 February, review Gregory Cochran's and Henry Harpending's The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. Michael Blowhard,"A Week with Gregory Cochran," 2blowhards, 25-30 January, interviews a co-author.

XLVII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, goes up at Notorious Ph.D. on 21 February. Send nominations of the best in ancient/medieval history blogging since 23 November to notoriousphd*at*mac*dot*com or use the form.

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXVIII is up at Judy Redman's Judy's research blog.

With special attention to Charles Darwin, the history of science festival, The Giant's Shoulders #8, is up at Greg Laden's Blog.

Indian History Carnival #14 is up at varnam.

Peter Wilby,"The Trouble with Oxford," New Statesman, 12 February, reviews Leslie Mitchell's Maurice Bowra: a Life.

Finally, Dr. Wicked's Write or Die"puts the prod in productivity." Which reminds me that I do have commitments to three book manuscripts. Hat tip.