Devin Powell | Science News | 2 December 2011 Useful backgrounder on cutting edge 3-D media. Forget wearing glasses, putting up with the inevitable headaches. Researchers have come up with plenty of new ways to fool the brain. US army already possesses holographic video display Comments Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana | LRB | 7 December 2011 Shocking, depressing, compelling in equal measure. Life story of Chadian boy born in Saudi Arabia, arrested in Pakistan, sold to US as al-Qaida terrorist, imprisoned in Guantanamo, freed seven horrible years later Comments Sean Flynn | GQ | 7 December 2011 Three young children killed in Memphis. Three teenagers convicted of murder, without evidence, save that they listened to heavy-metal music. Jailed for 18 years. Retried and released this year. Case closed. So who did it? Comments Nick Humphries | Edge | 4 December 2011 Reflections on evolution, human character, religion, medicine, and the placebo effect. "Nature itself may provide placebo information, by seeming to suggest that we're in the presence of a great designer, a creator, God" Comments Kurt Andersen | Vanity Fair | 6 December 2011 How much has fashion, art, music changed over past 20 years? Little. Certainly far less than in the previous 20. Why is this? Does the rapid rate of political, technological, economic change make us yearn for cultural stability? Comments Peter Waldman | Bloomberg | 6 December 2011 How to make money in American health care. Run a hospice for dying people. Pay nursing homes to refer patients. Who aren't actually dying. They live for years, during which time the hospice bills Medicare through the nose Comments | 
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