Jonathan Haidt | Guardian | 5 June 2012 Why would blue-collar workers vote for the political right when it appears to be against their own economic interests to do so? Commentators on the left tend to argue that they've been duped. But there is a better explanation Comments George Soros | Business Insider | 4 June 2012 Compelling read on failures of economic theory, and eurozone crisis. Soros believes the euro will survive because a break-up would hurt Germany as much as others. However, he says Berlin has only three months in which to act Comments 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 Kenan Malik | Pandaemonium | 4 June 2012 "Thirty years ago multiculturalism was widely seen as the answer to many of Europe’s social problems. Today it is seen, by growing numbers of people, not as the solution to, but as the cause of, Europe’s myriad social ills" Comments Cory Doctorow | MIT Tech Review | 6 June 2012 "The users and the analytics people are in a shooting war, but only the analytics people are armed. There's a business opportunity for a company that wants to supply arms to the rebels instead of the empire" Comments 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 Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 4 June 2012 The difference between triumph and defeat isn’t about willingness to take risks or attempts to prevent failure. In medicine, and much else, the difference is in how you react to failure. And whether you can master the art of rescue Comments Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston | Awl | 1 June 2012 Surpisingly open email conversation with four trappist monks. Turns out they don't take a vow of silence, can talk when necessary. "Cultivating silence in a group is hard and a discipline we have to commit to over and over again" Comments | 
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