Wang Hui | London Review Of Books | 3 May 2012 Fine analysis of Bo Xilai's downfall. "The important question is whether the scandal will encourage the development of a politics of democratic participation or merely end up reinforcing China’s practice of ‘backroom politics’" Comments Brad Plumer | Washington Post | 3 May 2012 Interview with economist James Galbraith. "There are common global patterns in economic inequality across different countries that appear to be very strongly related to major events affecting the world economy as a whole" Comments Drake Bennett | Businessweek | 3 May 2012 Deep dive into the cutting-edge science of folding, and its possible technological applications. "It’s a manufacturing strategy that we think is going to revolutionize everything from microelectronics to toy manufacturing" Comments Venkatesh Rao | Ribbon Farm | 3 May 2012 Literacy used to denote "linguistic sophistication", and was a skill that could be refined with practice. Now it simply means "reading and writing", and is no more than a "set of mechanical tests". What will the future hold? Comments Timothy Brook | Literary Review | 4 May 2012 Most think of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama as intrepid explorers, bold and honourable men. Few realise their real motivation was to see a Christian reconquest of the Middle East, with all Muslims and Jews eradicated Comments Mike Martin | Psychology Today | 1 May 2012 Marge Profit was a maverick thinker in evolutionary biology, possibly a genius, but never settled down in academia. Won a MacArthur grant, published three landmark papers while still in her thirties—and then vanished, in 2004 Comments | 
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