Bryan Burrough | Vanity Fair | 19 April 2012 Reconstruction of the night the Costa Concordia became the largest passenger ship ever wrecked. It's a "story of heroism and disgrace, and also, in the mistakes of its captain and certain officers, a tale of monumental human folly" Comments Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 16 April 2012 Super essay on how Facebook is affecting everday life. "It's not just a technological marvel, a youth movement or a business story. After just eight years of existence, Facebook is the biggest social phenomenon since the telephone" Comments Siddhartha Mukherjee | NYT | 19 April 2012 Was "serotonin hypothesis" of depression discarded too soon? Latest research suggests serotonin is indeed central to functioning of mood, but "its mechanism of action is vastly more subtle and more magnificent than we ever imagined" Comments Joe Hagan | Texas Monthly | 16 April 2012 Eight years ago Dan Rather accused President George Bush of using National Guard service to dodge the Vietnam draft. The story blew up in Rather's face. His documents were fakes. Now, with Bush retired, the true story can be told Comments Daron Acemoglu | MIT Press | 6 April 2012 Essay. Ten trends have defined our economic, social, and political lives for the past 100 years. The dominant one has been rising demand for individual rights. Will those trends, or different ones, shape the coming century? (PDF) Comments Alma Guillermoprieto | NYRB | 12 April 2012 Central and South American leaders are bracing themselves to break with the United States and abandon the "war on drugs". They can't win it. The costs are too great. What follows? Perhaps legalisation for marijuana, at least Comments Jason Zengerle | New York | 15 April 2012 Candid and caustic Massachusetts congressman discusses 30 years in Washington. Interesting throughout. On Republicans today: "Half of them are Michele Bachmann. The other half are afraid of losing a primary to Michele Bachmann" Comments PJ O'Rourke | WSJ | 13 April 2012 Farming sounds fun until you try it. "Raccoons eat the corn, squash and tomatoes. Freezing rain take cares of everything else." But all is not lost. "I've formed an inviolate bond with the land. The bank calls it a mortgage" Comments | 
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