News from TPM Online http://www.philosophersnet.com/news/index.php News stories selected by the TPM Online team. Stephen Toulmin and John Edwin Smith http://chronicle.com/article/Wise-Men-Gone-Stephen-Toulmin/63649/ How Brains Get Jokes http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527451.400-the-comedy-circuit-when-your-brain-gets-the-joke.html Mary Midgley Reviews Fodor and ­Piattelli Palmarini http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/06/what-darwin-got-wrong Going After Arendt http://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/01/assaulting-arendt Is Philosophy a 'Problem Field'? http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/acls-to-philosophy-drop-dead.html Academic Freedom at a Religious College http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/20/wheaton Philosopher David Bain on God and Earthquakes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8467755.stm Massimo Pigliucci Reports from the APA http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2009/12/from-apa-philosophy-for-children.html From the APA: Epistemology http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2009/12/from-apa-epistemology.html From the APA: Darwinism and Mind http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2009/12/from-apa-darwinism-and-mind.html From the APA: Philosophy of Science http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2009/12/from-apa-philosophy-of-science.html From the APA: is Faith a Virtue? http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/01/from-apa-is-faith-virtue.html Olusegun Oladipo 1957-2009 http://www.compassnews.net/Ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36567:prof-oladipo-dies-at-52&catid=42:commune&Itemid=796 Wendy Grossman on Karen Armstrong http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/16/charter-compassion-armstrong Steven Poole on Sen's 'The Idea of Justice' http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/07/amartya-sen-justice-book-review Wendy Grossman on Climate Change as 'Belief' http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/05/nicholson-climate-change-belief Andrew Copson: Happy 150th to 'On Liberty' http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/30/john-stuart-mill-on-liberty Philosophy Bites Podcast Hits 5 Million Mark http://virtualphilosopher.com/2009/10/philosophy-bites-podcast-more-than-5-million-downloads-so-far.html Michael Ruse on The Greatest Show on Earth http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/endless-forms-most-beautiful-indeed/article1309860/ Martha Nussbaum on Same-sex Marriage http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1935 Nina Power on the Inspiration of Postmodernism http://newhumanist.org.uk/2150/think-again How to Be Existentialist Socrates at the Airport http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/24/alain-de-botton-book-review/print Roger Scruton on TV and Children's Minds http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6871795.ece Mark Vernon on Philosophy and Real Life http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/02/philosophy-public-understanding-hobbs Michael Sandel's 'Justice' Course to be on PBS http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/television/26sandel.html