John Seabrook | New Yorker | 5 January 2012 Exceptional essay on streaming video giant, YouTube. How it started, grew, now plans to change television forever. Traditional broadcasters beware: "YouTube, home of grainy cellphone videos & skateboarding dogs, is going pro" Comments William Shawcross | WSJ | 7 January 2012 On imminent trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, apparent mastermind of 9/11. Shawcross, son of chief prosecutor at Nuremberg trials, defends use of military tribunal. "Morally hazardous actions" sometimes needed to protect civilisation Comments Nadia Arumugam | Forbes | 6 January 2012 Some thrown. Some cooked in store. Most goes to charity, or gets sold on to salvage stores. Leftovers go to urban foragers. Might not taste great, but it's mostly safe: “We put enough preservatives in our food to embalm an elephant" Comments Ali Vaez | Foreign Policy | 3 January 2012 Ayatollah Khamenei has almost perfect strategic misjudgement. No sense of what's reasonable or possible. Pushing nuclear programme forward, but making no friends. West should contain Iran until someone else takes charge Comments Michael Ruse | Talking Philosophy | 4 January 2012 Thoughtful essay on ethics, evolution. "I think there is a real difference between moral claims and scientific claims, and while the latter can be used to explain why we hold the former, they cannot be used to justify the former" Comments Ken Dryden | Grantland | 6 January 2012 Former Stanley Cup champion, Hall of Fame player explains what (ice) hockey means to Canadians. Says it's possible to keep the fight but ditch the fighting. That's where the spirit of hockey lies. In competitiveness, not headshots Comments | 
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