Scott MacLeod | Cairo Review of Global Affairs | 20 November 2012 Interview with former US ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker. On military interventions: The question to ask is "How much 'unknown' are you willing to assume for the goals you seek or the dangers you wish to avert?" Comments Jo Chandler | Global Mail | 13 November 2012 The Fore people of Papua New Guinea used to suffer from a mysterious "laughing death" disease they called kuru. Years of painstaking research concluded that it related to their practice of eating their dead Comments Maia Szalavitz | Time | 19 November 2012 Q&A with psychologist Kevin Dutton. You wouldn't blame a deaf person for failing to respond to unseen cries for help. What about if someone can be proven to be emotionally deaf? As a psychopath put it to Dutton Comments Mattathias Schwartz | Slate | 20 November 2012 Scenes from the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial. "When you are killing people in Iraq, you said 'we have to do it'. We don’t like Saddam, this is the way to deal with Saddam. Same thing you are saying. Same language you use, I use" Comments Daniel Akst | LA Times | 19 November 2012 "You know what? I feel for you. We all do — my pals parchment, clay tablet, cave walls, the whole gang. Oh, we were all jealous of one another, of course we were, but when you came to town, it was clear we'd all go down together" Comments David Barash | Chronicle Review | 19 November 2012 "If homosexuals reproduce less than heterosexuals—and they do—then why has natural selection not operated against it?" The short answer is we don't have a proven explanation, but here are some promising possibilities Comments | 
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