Stephen Holmes & Ivan Krastev | Transit / Eurozine | 17 February 2012 "By engineering rigged elections that nobody bothered or dared to protest, Putin managed to conceal his regime's deepest secret, namely that Russia, rather than being misgoverned, is governed very laxly if at all" Comments Paul Mason | BBC | 17 February 2012 "It looks like something changed, tangibly, in the past 10 days. The established parties lost belief in what the EU is forcing them to do; parts of the EU lost belief in it too; and the people lost belief in the political class" Comments John Sifton | Nation | 7 February 2012 Why do drones disturb us? It's to do with the distance between killer and killed, the asymmetry. Also, the prospect of automation. "Drones foreshadow the idea that brutality could become detached from humanity" Comments Laura Sanders | ScienceNews | 11 February 2012 "If you really want to understand consciousness, then you need to separate the effects of attention." This is how scientists have begun to do so, and what the results of their experiments suggest about the human brain Comments Hampton Sides | Outside | 24 January 2012 "He was traveling 72 mph—flying, but not in the right way." For he was on skis, not in a plane. Even so Svindal soared 197 feet through the sky before landing. His injuries were severe. But the champion would return to compete again Comments Brandon Keim | Wired | 16 February 2012 “There’s this whole world below 650 milliseconds. It’s like landing on another planet. It’s an enormous part of the market which is out of human reach." Only dimly understood, this is the home of flash crashes and black swan events Comments | 
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