Here’s my picks

The Zen of Californication
Hank Moody fucks all these women simply because he truly loves them. And what’s not to love about the women on the show? They’re all goddesses – perfect, lithe, ambrosial vixens. The only thing holding men back from all being Hank Moody’s is self-control and opportunity. With the kind of opportunity Hank gets, no mere mortal could resist these sirens. His self-destruction is actually a celebration of the divine feminine.

To Mars By A-Bomb
BBC Four documentary on the US government’s bizarre Project Orion, a plan to send spaceships around our solar system with nuclear power.
These guys were looking to science fiction writers as their creative team, basically. The romance of just making insane ideas real, and it actually working (well, at least to some extent)… why isn’t it like this anymore?

How Will Religion Evolve?
Does religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise — people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a traditional deity?

The Card Game
In The Card Game, a follow-up to the Secret History of the Credit Card and a joint project with The New York Times, Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square off over attempts to reform the way the industry has done business for decades.

Lessons From the Japanese: Time to Stop Borrowing Money and Start Printing It
The reason the level of bank lending is so important is that virtually all our money today originates as loans created by private banks. Most people think money is issued by the government, but the only money the government creates are coins, which compose less than one ten-thousandth of the money supply - about $1 billion out of $13.8 trillion (M3). Dollar bills are issued by the Federal Reserve, a privately owned banking corporation, and lent to the government and to other banks. And coins and dollar bills together make up only about 7 percent of the money supply. All of the rest is simply written into accounts on computer screens by bankers when they make loans.