Malcolm Gladwell | New Yorker | 17 September 2012 "The child molester’s key strategy is one of escalation, desensitizing the target with an ever-expanding touch. In interviews and autobiographies, pedophiles describe their escalation techniques like fly fishermen comparing lures" Comments David Brooks | NYT | 17 September 2012 You don't need to be a liberal or a Democrat to be a critic of Mitt Romney. Here's what the Republican candidate got wrong in his recently revealed comments at a fund-raiser, and what it says about him Comments Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Telegraph | 19 September 2012 Dispute between China and Japan over barren islands in East China Sea looks absurd. But it isn't. "This is a calibrated crisis to test the strength of the US alliance with Japan." Obama faces a critical decision Comments Frank Close | Prospect | 19 September 2012 "Matter is not the Big Bang’s only child. It was born with a long-lost twin: Antimatter." Here's what we know about it, and the mystery of how matter, rather than antimatter, came to dominate our universe Comments John Jeremiah Sullivan | NYT | 20 September 2012 Lovely, meandering account of a visit to Cuba. Sullivan's wife is from a Cuban family, which means they're allowed to fly to Havana direct from Miami. The US relationship with Cuba remains deeply dysfunctional though Comments Chris Anderson | Wired | 19 September 2012 MakerBot plans to kickstart an industrial revolution. In traditional manufacturing mass production comes cheap, but flexibility, variety and complexity remain unaffordable. In 3D printing the reverse is true. Here's what's coming Comments Ariel Sabar | Smithsonian | 18 September 2012 Harvard divinity professor unveils scrap of ancient papyrus containing the words: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'". Scholars believe it's authentic (though one test is still to be done). But what does it mean? Comments Simon Schama | FT | 13 September 2012 "Orwell's four motives for writing still seem to me the most honest account of why long-form non-fiction writers do what they do, with 'sheer egoism' at the top." For Schama, it's also a "resistance to the attrition of memory" Comments | 
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