Gina Kolata | NYT | 7 June 2012 Not long ago Alzheimer's was regarded as a degenerative brain disease with no known cause and no effective treatment. But one family who've been repeatedly struck by it have been helping the search for understanding and a cure Comments David Margolick | Vanity Fair | 7 June 2012 Long profile cum interview with Israeli PM. Focuses on domestic political scene. "For some Israelis, Israel is confronting two main problems: One is Iran and the second is Bibi Netanyahu—and not necessarily in that order" Comments John Shiffman, Anna Driver & Brian Grow | Reuters | 7 June 2012 Life of the 0.0001%. Influential CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp, champion of fracking, spender of shareholders' money. Big time. Like flying his wife's friends to Bermuda in a private jet and billing it to the company Comments Russell Stannard | Huffington Post | 5 June 2012 Physicist on limits of science. Can't explain why world exists. Can it even describe world accurately? "What has been written down is not a description of the world at all, but a description of acts of observation made on the world" Comments Lionel Beehner | World Policy Institute | 6 June 2012 UN Security Council needs reform. It has rendered itself powerless to prevent mass atrocities. Here's a simple suggestion: Add five more permanent members, give them power of veto. And require two vetoes to block a resolution Comments Raymond Tallis | Philosophy Now | 5 June 2012 Notes on time, and the tyranny of the clock. "As we seem to get a grip on time via numbers, time gets an ever-tighter grip on us. We are like Gulliver in Lilliput, pinned to the ground by a multitude of chronological threads" Comments | 
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