Abrahm Lustgarten | Mother Jones | 26 June 2012 "Over the past few decades, US firms have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth. Until recently, scientists assumed that deep layers of rock would safely entomb the waste." Were they mistaken? Comments Ruchir Sharma | Washington Post | 24 June 2012 In Russia, 100 billionaires control fortunes worth 20% of national GDP. In China, despite huge rise in national wealth, nobody's net worth gets much above $10bn. Is the government quietly limiting private fortunes? Comments Selwyn Raab | Foreign Affairs | 26 June 2012 "As the Mafia's fortunes have shifted over time, fictionalised accounts of the Mob have subtly but consistently encouraged the public to accept and even embrace it as a colourful aspect of the nation's cultural landscape" Comments EO Wilson | NYT | 25 June 2012 "Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good?" Big question on the human condition, tackled by way of evolutionary biology Comments Marc Parry | Chronicle Review | 25 June 2012 President Obama got into diplomatic hot water recently over his clumsy reference to "a Polish death camp". But does the national narrative that Poland is exclusively a victim of history, not a victimiser stand up to scrutiny? Comments Various | Big Picture | 22 June 2012 Thirty-seven photos, many of which are extraordinarily beautiful. Some personal favourites: Climbing inside an Alpine ice cave; the Taj Mahal shot from an unusual angle; cruising the highways of Cuba in a 1950s Buick Comments | 
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