Ryan Lizza | New Yorker | 11 June 2012 Present indications are that Obama vs Romney will be a very tight contest. If it's Obama, narrowly, what will he do, how will he behave in a second term? Lizza sketches out his likely priorities, and scope for action Comments David Cyranoski | Nature | 12 June 2012 Adrian Owen has achieved the unthinkable: He's found a way to communicate with people who have been left in vegetative states. But his research raises issues – should he ask patients if they want to discontinue life support? Comments John Hempton | Bronte Capital | 10 June 2012 "China is a kleptocracy of a scale never seen before in human history. This post aims to explain how this wave of theft is financed, what makes it sustainable and what will make it fail." (h/t Florens Sauerbruch) Comments Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein | Washington Post | 8 June 2012 Forty years on from Watergate, we know much more about Nixon's presidency, most of it bad. He waged war "against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and, finally, against history itself" Comments David Graeber | Baffler | 4 June 2012 Futurologists thought we would have flying cars, force-fields, tractor beams, teleportation, antigravity sleds, immortality drugs and space colonies. But the only technologies to have advanced since the 1970s are those of simulation Comments Mark Bowden | Vanity Fair | 14 June 2012 "The first thing Nels Rasmussen asked Detective Mayer the day after his daughter was murdered was 'Have you checked out John's ex-girlfriend, the lady cop?'" They hadn't. When they finally did, 23 years later, the mystery unfolded Comments Deirdre McCloskey | New Republic | 8 June 2012 Outstanding essay on measuring happiness. Critiques new "science" of hedonics, and the dreaded 1-2-3 studies relied on by so many economists. "We do not need more hedonomics or utilonomics or freakonomics. We need humanomics" Comments Ian Penman | City Journal | 8 June 2012 Superb piece on godfather of soul James Brown, pegged to new biography. "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business rubbed up against the worst dreams of men and ultimately paid a heavy, soul-consuming price" Comments | 
No comments:
Post a Comment