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 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 Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 27 January 2012 Utterly gripping account of Douglas Mawson's 1912-13 Antarctic expedition. Unimaginable hardship in the cause of science. Mawson's hair fell out, skin peeled off. He survived only by bathing his eyes in cocaine and eating his dogs Comments Adam Curtis | BBC | 31 January 2012 Social history of the cruise ship industry, from the 1960s to the wreck of the Costa Concordia. Ships as "giant floating theatrical bubbles" in which ordinary people could behave for a while as though they were upper class Comments Paul Mason | Scribd | 31 January 2012 Compelling tour d'horizon of political, social, economic turmoil. Is this a "50-year moment" where crisis leads to protectionism, economic nationalism, de-globalisation? Or could it be something much bigger – a 500-year event? Comments Marc Parry | Chronicle | 29 January 2012 "Liberals need to be shaken. They simply misunderstand conservatives far more than the other way around." Enjoyable profile of moral psychologist Haidt. Turns out he praises Sarah Palin. Enjoys Glenn Beck. Even reads National Review Comments Ian Parker | New Yorker | 30 January 2012 Remember the case of the Rutgers student, Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide after his roommate allegedly filmed him having gay sex and broadcast it online? This monumental reconstruction suggests it wasn't that straightforward Comments Jourdan Anderson | Letters Of Note | 30 January 2012 US colonel writes to former slave, requesting he return to work. Former slave replies, in some style. Signs off with: "Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me" Comments | 
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