September 14, 2012: Morning
- I've rarely been so self-conscious of the limits of my job trying to describe Aleppo.
- Only John Kiriakou will be held as part of America's torture policy: for whistle-blowing.
- Technology has enabled a couple of loonies to start a mini-war in the Muslim world.
- Deaths of Afghan skaters resonates because the kids were the sort of people war was meant to uplift and protect.
- China's next president hasn't been seen all month, affecting the greatest government reorganization in a decade.
- If you're going to do political art like Ai Weiwei and Pussy Riot, seek to shame the state.
- Political fossil fuel ads outspend green ads three-to-one, a flip from the last cycle.
- Admitting defeat and allowing sprawling cities to naturally evolve might not be so crazy.
- Neuroscience has become an intellectual pestilence on the nonfiction shelf, true experts are left exasperated.
- Musician on cross-country tour translates brain waves while sleeping in ambient, chordal soundscapes.
- Introducing the the Yudkowsky Ambition scale of startups: from the next Facebook to hacking the universe.