Frank Rich | New York | 9 December 2012 "What’s really shocking about the Petraeus affair is not Petraeus’s affair but the fact that once again, we were taken in by a secular plaster saint." And there are many more where he came from, says Rich in this fun, barbed piece Comments Gary Marcus | New Yorker | 7 December 2012 How Chomsky changed linguistics. "For most of us, words and sentences are tools for communicating. But for Chomsky, words and sentences are tools for understanding the nature and origins of knowledge" Comments Izabella Kaminska | FT Alphaville | 10 December 2012 Intricate reflection on paradoxical impact of technological change. New technology raises productivity and hours worked, bringing abundance closer. "Incumbent interests" react to protect their relative wealth by engineering scarcity Comments Avedis Hadjian | Ianyan | 4 December 2012 Meetings with Turkey's "secret Armenians"— families that survived the 1915 massacres, usually converting to Islam, assuming new identity as Turks or Kurds. Numbers unknown: Could be two million. Still afraid to reveal themselves Comments Eric Ellis | Global Mail | 7 December 2012 Who, bar Danes, could possibly be interested in a TV drama about Danish politics? Ellis considers the phenomenon of Borgen, which has viewers across five continents glued to their screens. NBC is to produce a US re-make Comments Robert Krulwich | Krulwich Wonders | 7 December 2012 Fun, short post (better with pictures enabled) on the psychology of waiting. For anything really, but in this case buses. With reference to the grandaddy of such experiments, waiting at the baggage reclaim carousel Comments | 
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