Michael Hudson | Naked Capitalism | 27 January 2012 "Banking has moved so far away from funding industrial growth and economic development that it now benefits at the economy’s expense in a predatory and extractive way, not by making productive loans." Something has to change Comments Jonathan Wood | Oxford Science Blog | 26 January 2012 If there was a cheap device that improved your language skills, maths, memory, general reasoning, would you buy it? Hope you never have to answer that? Well, now you might. Looks like "transcranial direct current stimulation" works Comments Andrew Marshall | Reuters | 27 January 2012 Reporting from the Golden Triangle. Heroin still the main business, but challenged by methamphetamine. Other contraband includes wild animals, weaponry, North Korean refugees. Not to mention the gambling, warfare, murder Comments Alison Gopnik | WSJ | 28 January 2012 Children are reaching puberty earlier and earlier in life. And yet these same children are adopting adult roles later and later. Which makes for "a good deal of teenage weirdness". Fine essay explains what's really going on Comments Ron Chepesiuk | Crime | 16 January 2012 On the making of a New York brothel keeper. Started career in 1920 almost accidentally. Clients soon stretched from gangsters and politicians to intellectual elite. At one time, head waiters all over Manhattan were on her payroll Comments John Davidson | Bygone Bureau | 18 January 2012 In which the author learns, after having two automatic rifles stolen from his apartment, that the easiest way to get his stuff back is to have one drug dealer lie to another drug dealer while he lies to the police Comments | 
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