Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 10 April 2012 Can economic growth continue indefinitely? No, said the physicist to the economist. And here, in a delightful re-creation of a recent dinner conversation between the two, is why not Comments Christian Smith | First Things | 1 April 2012 Is religion an "innate, instinctive, inevitable aspect of human life"? Or a "historically contingent, nonessential aspect of basic human being?" This essay suggests we are indeed religious by nature. A challenge for secularism Comments Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 7 April 2012 Interview with Eric Kandel, giant of modern neuroscience. Discussion centres on the science of aesthetics (how the brain responds to art), and the rise of Modernists in 19th century Vienna Comments Tony Dokoupil | Newsweek | 8 April 2012 Reporter investigates hate crime of convicted murderer Deryl Dedmon. "What I discovered was deeper, scarier, and more complex than a single country boy gone bad or even simple, pre-civil-rights-era racism" Comments James Surowiecki | New Yorker | 9 April 2012 US has been ruthless about breaking down barriers to free trade. Except in healthcare. It's one of the reasons why American healthcare costs have risen so fast. And it makes the logic of medical tourism harder and harder to resist Comments Anonymous | Telegraph | 10 April 2012 "Eccentric and wayward president of Malawi who threw away a reputation for being modestly successful and led his bewildered country to ruin." Born Brighton Webster Ryson Thom. Worked for World Bank. Haunted by invisible rats Comments | 
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