Abdelrahman Al Ahmar | Haaretz | 23 December 2011 "Our homes were raided nightly. We saw our friends, mothers, sisters being attacked. We saw no end in sight, just more Israelis about to move into our neighbourhood and make our lives hell. So a group of us kids fought back" Comments Amy Harmon | NYT | 26 December 2011 Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Nothing goes smoothly. Unusual? No. Except both suffer from Asperger's syndrome. "Parents always ask, ‘Who would like to marry my kid? They’re so weird.’ Another weird person, that’s who" Comments Amartya Sen | FT | 24 December 2011 Fine speech on global economy, growth, development: "I cannot hide from this audience my belief that a great many countries in the West seem to be doing their best to go straight into the mouth of a fairly hefty snake" Comments Robert Zaretsky | Tablet | 19 December 2011 Historian explains why he gave up lecturing on the Holocaust. It doesn't obey logic or theory. You can't draw lessons or analogies from it. "Any survivor has more to say than all historians combined about what happened” Comments Tyler Cowen | Less Wrong | 17 December 2011 TED talk transcript. We crave simplifying narratives, stereotypes, to help us make sense of the world. Sometimes they help us to understand things. But they blind us to new facts. If we rely on stories, we cease to learn Comments Timothy Snyder | Foreign Affairs | 19 December 2011 Historian disputes Steven Pinker's claim that humans are becoming more peaceful. Individuals in a well-functioning modern state are less violent than in earlier, wilder times. But the state itself can be much more violent Comments | 
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