Amy Barth | Discover | 25 September 2012 Here's a look at some mind-blowing research. How the new science of optogenetics could deliver a cure for drug addiction and mental illness. By using lights to shut down specific neural pathways. Extraordinary stuff Comments Dexter Roberts | Businessweek | 26 September 2012 Standing Committee of the Politburo meets once a week, takes decisions by consensus, doesn't rock the boat. "They can arrest people. They can build a railroad or an airport. But it’s the bigger things that are much harder" Comments Maureen Orth | Vanity Fair | 26 September 2012 Big, cheesy, celebrity-strewn read about Tom Cruise and Scientology. How the Church helped Cruise ditch Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz, find Katie Holmes. "The audition process for the next Mrs Cruise did not yield much at first" Comments Steven Strogatz | NYT | 24 September 2012 "No other number attracts such a fevered following as the golden ratio. Approximately equal to 1.618 and denoted by the Greek letter phi, it’s been canonized as the 'Divine Proportion'.” Here's everything you need to know about it Comments Debora Spar | Newsweek | 24 September 2012 "Rather than leaping with glee at the liberation that has befallen women since the 1960s, we are laboring instead under a double whammy of impossible expectations—the old-fashioned ones and those wrought more recently" Comments Paul Mandelbaum | LA Review Of Books | 9 September 2012 Travels through Romania. "I want to research a piece about the literary scene. I quickly find such an assignment impossible without setting off vast fields of long-buried landmines — historical, political, and all too personal" Comments | 
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