Blaine Harden | Guardian | 16 March 2012 Shin In Geun is probably the only person to have been born in, and escape from, a North Korean camp for political prisoners. His account of the cruelty and viciousness of life inside Camp 14 is harrowing almost beyond belief Comments Mat Honan | Gizmodo | 22 March 2012 Fundamentals have changed. Google's model no longer to maximise market share. That's done. Now comes time for monetising captive audience by whatever means available. Google's core product is no longer search. It's Google Comments Nathaniel Rich | NYT | 21 March 2012 New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward was slated to become "green space" post-Katrina. But some residents wanted to return. So the result, generously put, is laissez-faire. Population down by three-quarters; flora and fauna running riot Comments Thomas Frank | MIT Press Journals/Baffler | 16 March 2012 America suffers three big self-inflicted wounds in barely a decade: "New Economy" bubble, war in Iraq, banking crash. Yet nobody gets held to account, nobody gets shamed. Neither among the principals, nor the pundits (PDF) Comments Neil Shea | American Scholar | 12 March 2012 With US forces. "Many times I have watched soldiers or Marines, driven by boredom or fear, behave selfishly and meanly, even illegally, in minor ways. [Now] I felt I was watching some of the men unravel toward serious crimes" Comments Richard Marshall | 3:AM Magazine | 17 March 2012 Philosopher Graham Priest discusses paraconsistent logic, paradoxes, dialetheism. "Contrary to orthodoxy in Western philosophy, some claims are true and false, that is, they have a true negation. Nor is this irrational." Here's why Comments Dick Teresi | Salon | 18 March 2012 "Most of us would agree that King Tut and other mummified ancient Egyptians are dead, and that you and I are alive. Somewhere in between these two states lies the moment of death. But where is that?" It's surprisingly tricky to tell Comments Annie Murphy Paul | NYT | 17 March 2012 Investigating what neuroscience has to say about people who read novels. "Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined" Comments | 
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