Ian Bremmer | Reuters | 24 December 2012 Critique of US National Intelligence Council's "Global Trends 2030" report. Needs more China. "If there are twin gigatrends that supersede all else, they are China’s trajectory, and the multipolar world in which it is playing out" Comments Jonah Weiner | NYT | 20 December 2012 It helps that Seinfeld is such a likeable character, and that good humour is his stock-in-trade. But wow, this profile is a pleasure to read. "In his jokes he arranges life’s messy confusions into a bouquet of trivial irritants" Comments Gary Marcus | New Yorker | 24 December 2012 "A lot of scientists have been busted recently for making up data and fudging statistics. How on Earth are we going to do better? Here are six suggestions, [starting with a proposal to] restructure the incentives in science" Comments Matthew Green | Reuters | 23 December 2012 Is Haji Khairullah Barakzai an illiterate village boy made good thanks to hard work and street smarts? Or is he, as the US alleges, banker to the Taliban, kingpin of an underground drug network? Is it possible there's a bit of both? Comments Jennifer Kingson | NYT | 24 December 2012 Would any child grow up wanting to be a chemist after using today's safe chemistry sets? The days of making bad smells and explosions are over. "Basically, you have to be able to eat everything in the science kit" Comments Perry Link | China File | 24 December 2012 Perry Link amplifies his criticisms of Mo Yan's writings, in reply to a defence from Charles Laughlin. Full of good points about literature in China, art under censorship, and the political manipulation of language and history Comments | 
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