Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 21 June 2012 How banks defrauded small towns across US. "No thumbs were broken, and nobody ended up in a landfill in New Jersey, but money disappeared, lots and lots of it, and its manner of disappearance had a familiar name: Organised crime" Comments Martin Nowak | Scientific American | 19 June 2012 "Evolutionary simulations indicate that cooperation is intrinsically unstable; periods of cooperative prosperity inevitably give way to defective doom. And yet the altruistic spirit always seems to rebuild itself" Comments Andrew Marshall | Reuters | 20 June 2012 "The military junta that ruled Burma for nearly 50 years is gone. But it is survived by a formidable apparatus of oppression. As the economy opens up, there are signs that repressive system is being retooled" for a new purpose Comments Dave Gardetta | Los Angeles | 19 June 2012 "Doc Johnson is the Procter & Gamble of sex toys. Each month the company pours 125 tons of rubber, manufacturing 330,000 dildos, vibrators, and synthetic buttocks." Gardetta pays a visit to the father-son team behind the operation Comments Richard Kearney | ABC | 21 June 2012 "The great stories of the biblical tradition that characterises the three Abrahamic religions – Jewish, Christian and Islamic – are testaments to the paradoxical origins of religion in both violent conflict and peaceful embrace" Comments Amanda Katz | NPR | 21 June 2012 Presumably yes, if you give them the password to your Amazon account. They'll be able to keep your marginalia too, if you use the highlights and notes function on your Kindle. But you have to admit, it doesn't feel very inspiring Comments | 
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