David Sanger | NYT | 1 June 2012 Extraordinary piece. Suggests Obama authorised wave after wave of cyber strikes against Iranian nuclear sites. Under an operation codenamed Olympic Games that was developed in tandem with Israel. Stuxnet was part of it Comments Steve Wasserman | Nation | 29 May 2012 "The bookstore wars are over. Independents are battered, Borders is dead, Barnes & Noble weakened but still standing and Amazon triumphant. Yet still there is no peace; a new war rages for the future of publishing" Comments Jason Goldman | Thoughtful Animal | 31 May 2012 Three quarters of dog owners believe they do. But guilt is a "secondary emotion", one that requires cognitive sophistication. Dogs may look guilty. But is this a "learned response" or true emotion? Here's the latest research Comments David Wasserstein | Jewish Chronicle | 24 May 2012 "Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth." Without rise of Islam, Jewry would have disappeared in the West and become "just another oriental cult" in the East Comments Seth Stevenson | Slate | 1 June 2012 It's not the length of the wait – it's whether it's longer than expected and whether someone who arrives after you gets served before you. So what happens when queue theorists try to check out of their hotel at the same time? Comments Henk Spaan | FT | 2 June 2012 Profile of the Dutch soccer star. "He has grown from a capricious, somewhat moody adolescent into a verbally gifted, grown-up family man, one of the few footballers I know who is capable of self-reflection and self-criticism" Comments | 
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