Steve Waldman | Interfluidity | 29 November 2011 Yes, banks took loans from the Fed during credit crisis, but they've paid it all back now. Since there were no credit losses, there wasn't really a bailout, right? Wrong. Here's a super post that explains why, in no uncertain terms Comments Linda Geddes | New Scientist | 29 November 2011 "The anaesthetic would make me feel drowsy, I would go to sleep, when I woke up it would all be over. What they didn't tell me was how the drugs would send me into the realms of oblivion. They couldn't. The truth is, no one knows" Comments Stephen Walt | Foreign Policy | 28 November 2011 Putting the Arab uprisings in historical perspective. Building new political orders is difficult, unpredictable, takes time. Look at what happened with the French and Russian revolutions, Iran, even America Comments Nicola Twilley | Edible Geography | 29 November 2011 Inside New York's biggest banana warehouse, where climate control fools the fruit into thinking it is still on the plant in tropical Ecuador. “The energy coming off a box of ripening bananas could heat a small apartment” Comments Peter Swire & Kenesa Ahmad | cdt | 28 November 2011 Fine essay addresses the "going dark" problem, when law enforcement is blinded by new forms of encrypted communication. Whilst an issue, this misses the point. We actually live in a "golden age of surveillance". Here's why Comments Glen David Gold | LA Review of Books | 29 November 2011 A lesson and warning to aspiring authors, administered from the grave by an acid William Faulkner. By all means cultivate literary friendships. But don't commodify them. The price may be higher than you think Comments | 
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