Sabrina Buckwalter | Open | 7 December 2012 Lesser-known aspects of globalisation: Honey laundering. Wholesalers ship Chinese honey into US marked as Indian honey, to dodge tariffs. "It's obvious. India doesn't have the capacity to produce what they're shipping" Comments Jonathan Ansfield | NYT | 4 December 2012 The more we learn about Chinese politics, the more interesting these faceless bureaucrats turn out to be. Here's a fine tale about how a top aide, by covering up his wild son's car-crash death, undermined his boss, the president Comments Vinod Khosla | Fortune | 4 December 2012 The future of medicine is fewer doctors and better care. Diagnosis and treatment planning will be done by computer not diagnostician (Dr Algorithm not Dr House) while humans hired for their empathic qualities will provide the care Comments Rania Abouzeid | Time | 4 December 2012 "I think I'm unrecognizable now," the Sniper says. "I never really thought I'd kill someone." But since he defected, he has killed — 34 people who did not see his bullet coming, including, he suspects, his childhood friend Mohammad Comments Carl Zimmer | NYT | 5 December 2012 What makes a spider abandon its web and build a radically different one, or makes pond-living gammarids race to the surface instead of diving into the mud? The answer is that their brains have been hijacked by parasites. But how? Comments Edmund White | Guardian | 6 December 2012 "Even careful writers begin to sound like porn soundtracks when they turn to sex writing... The anatomical vocabulary is hackneyed, [it's] impossible to visualise because full of ludicrously mixed metaphors, and given to bragging" Comments | 
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