First Links—3.10.15

Are LARCs the Solution to Nonmarital Childbearing?
Helen Alvaré, Family Studies

ISIS and What the World Really Wants
Br. Dominic Mary Verner,O.P., Dominicana

The Death of Writing – if James Joyce Were Alive Today He’d Be Working for Google
Tom McCarthy, The Guardian

How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
Jonathan Berger, Nautilus

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