Mac McClelland | Mother Jones | 27 February 2012 Portrait of the American workplace in all its horror. Intrepid reporter goes to work in warehouse owned by, or servicing, unnamed online retail giant. Impossible targets; negligible pay; if you don't like it, you're fired Comments Janelle Nanos | Boston Magazine | 28 February 2012 Wonderful. Writer forms intimate bond with smartphone, then catches herself treating it like a human and trying to hide facts from it. "Where are we headed? I wanted to know before things got any weirder between my phone and me" Comments William Nordhaus | NYRB | 27 February 2012 Yale economist rebuts sceptics' arguments, point by point. The earth is getting warmer. Due to carbon dioxide pollution. Humans are responsible. The science is legitimate. It's a bad situation. It's worth taking action Comments Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 24 February 2012 Assuming you already speak English. Mandarin jumps out as an obvious choice, but complexity of its written form suggests it would be the wrong candidate. Spanish? Arabic? Both are contenders. But Greene plumps for French. Here's why Comments Thomas de Waal | Foreign Policy | 27 February 2012 "Here is a not entirely frivolous suggestion: How about skipping the political science textbooks when it comes to trying to understand the former Soviet Union and instead opening up the pages of Gogol, Chekhov, and Dostoyevsky?" Comments Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 27 February 2012 On the Bible's last book. "Revelation, far from being meant as a hallucinatory prophecy, is actually a coded account of events happening at the time of writing. It’s really a political cartoon about the crisis in the Jesus movement" Comments Ron Taffel | AlterNet | 22 February 2012 "I’m seeing mothers and fathers challenge the entire social, educational, professional, and economic context of childrearing—a system, they increasingly believe, that’s made effective parenting almost unachievable" Comments Christine Baumgarthuber | New Inquiry | 23 February 2012 "Terrible and lonely are those hours during which I fret and worry and stare at the ceiling. I certainly don't look forward to them. But there was a time when late-night wakefulness wasn't something to be dreaded but welcomed" Comments | 
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