Henry Blodget | New York | 6 May 2012 Big profile of Zuckerberg, in advance of Facebook IPO. Was he lucky? Did he have the right idea, at the right time? Yes, on both counts. But he's also a talented leader. A much more impressive man than many are prepared to admit Comments Michael Specter | New Yorker | 7 May 2012 "Many people see geoengineering as a false solution to an existential crisis—akin to encouraging a heart-attack patient to avoid exercise and continue to gobble fatty food while simply doubling his dose of Lipitor." Are they right? Comments Michael Agresta | Slate | 8 May 2012 Will paper books exist in the future? Yes, but they'll look different. This beautifully illustrated essay argues that as their role as vessels for delivering text is lost to digital, their other qualities will grow in importance Comments Paul Mason | BBC | 9 May 2012 What happens after an election result like that? And in circumstances like these? When to be in power is to commit political suicide. And even the traditional parties cannot cooperate. Mason sees two possible routes out Comments Sheila Melvin | Caixin | 4 May 2012 When British and French forces looted and burned the Chinese emperors' Summer Palace in 1860, they committed one of history's greatest cultural crimes. They destroyed wantonly a paradise of treasures assembled over centuries Comments Brad Plumer | Washington Post | 3 May 2012 Interview with economist James Galbraith. "There are common global patterns in economic inequality across different countries that appear to be very strongly related to major events affecting the world economy as a whole" Comments Venkatesh Rao | Ribbon Farm | 3 May 2012 Literacy used to denote "linguistic sophistication", and was a skill that could be refined with practice. Now it simply means "reading and writing", and is no more than a "set of mechanical tests". What will the future hold? Comments Wright Thompson | ESPN | 3 May 2012 "I arrive in Odessa, Texas, flying low over black pump jacks, chasing the sort of weird, true crime story that often gets reporters on planes: A 16-year-old named Jerry Joseph, a basketball player, has been found out as an imposter" Comments | 
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