Ethan Gutman | Weekly Standard | 25 November 2011 "Chinese medical authorities admit the lion’s share of transplant organs originate with executions, but no mainland doctors, even in exile, will normally speak of performing such surgery." Now one has. Prepare for a shocking story Comments George Packer | Foreign Affairs | 1 November 2011 US in decline. "All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress." Surface of life goes on improving, but deep structures, institutions, processes have decayed. Elites have lost their moral compass Comments Linda Geddes | New Scientist | 29 November 2011 "The anaesthetic would make me feel drowsy, I would go to sleep, when I woke up it would all be over. What they didn't tell me was how the drugs would send me into the realms of oblivion. They couldn't. The truth is, no one knows" Comments Steve Waldman | Interfluidity | 29 November 2011 Yes, banks took loans from the Fed during credit crisis, but they've paid it all back now. Since there were no credit losses, there wasn't really a bailout, right? Wrong. Here's a super post that explains why, in no uncertain terms Comments Richard Evans | New Statesman | 24 November 2011 Super analysis by Cambridge professor on how Germany's history affects its attitude to euro plight. It's not a lingering desire to control Europe that drives German policy, it's fearful memories of Weimar Republic Comments Carl Zimmer | NYT | 28 November 2011 Super profile of Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist. Anarchist at age of 15 (“If you weren’t an anarchist, you couldn’t get a date”), student of human nature, linguist, advocate of evolutionary psychology, now expert on violence Comments Nicola Twilley | Edible Geography | 29 November 2011 Inside New York's biggest banana warehouse, where climate control fools the fruit into thinking it is still on the plant in tropical Ecuador. “The energy coming off a box of ripening bananas could heat a small apartment” Comments Avi Steinberg | Paris Review | 28 November 2011 Modern airline safety cards are "spare, noiseless projections that maintain a zen-like neutrality to the chaos and horror of the actual event". Jollier in the 1950s. “Loosen your tie, but keep all your clothes on,” advised PanAm Comments | 
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