Christopher Hitchens | Vanity Fair | 7 December 2011 Powerful piece of writing on dealing with disease, pain, death. From one of the great essayists. Does “whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” hold true? Not when the very medicine that sustains you, weakens you Comments Jeff Wise | Popular Mechanics | 6 December 2011 Black box recordings retell events aboard Air France Airbus that crashed in 2009 killing 228. Gripping, if worrying, read. Confused co-pilot flew into a severe thunderstorm, tried to climb above it, stalled the plane Comments John Lanchester | London Review Of Books | 6 December 2011 Another superb piece of writing on the financial crisis by Lanchester. Picking apart the detail of three recent scandals – sale of Northern Rock to Virgin, demise of MF Global and bizarre happenings at camera maker Olympus Comments Ken Murray | Zocalo | 4 December 2011 "What’s unusual is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves" Comments Ed Yong | Nature | 7 December 2011 "It is not every day that you are separated from your body and then stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife." So begins a terrific feature on neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson and his ground-breaking research into our sense of self Comments John Gapper | FT | 2 December 2011 "Like the cycles of financial speculation and crashes that have occurred throughout history, rogue traders are always with us." Fascinating on what drives us to gamble recklessly. Helps to know your bird-watching, says Gapper Comments Matthew Shaer | New York | 4 December 2011 When an eight-year-old Jewish boy disappeared in an orthodox neighbourhood of Brooklyn in July, the community mobilised to find out what had happened. What came next was unexpected. They were looking for a killer from within Comments Katherine Ozment | Boston Magazine | 30 November 2011 Cautionary tale of modern parenting: "I’d bought into the self-esteem dogma — the idea that bathing our children in good feeling and positive reinforcement arms them with the confidence they need to lead better lives." A mistake Comments | 
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