Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 15 October 2012 How a high-speed rail disaster exposed China's corruption. "An engineer who worked on the railway’s construction told me, 'There is an expression in Chinese: when you take too great a leap, you can tear your balls'" Comments Noam Chomsky | Guardian | 15 October 2012 When the world stood still. Kennedy secretly recorded White House meetings, which may help explain why his stand was "relatively temperate". But, says Chomsky, a closer look at what took place adds grim overtones to these judgements Comments Dan Barry | NYT | 13 October 2012 Affecting snapshot of small-town America. Donna Dove runs a diner in Elyria, Ohio. It cost her all she had to open it. Turning over enough to pay the bills and have a little left over is relentless, hard work Comments Josh Freedman | McSweeney's | 15 October 2012 All-purpose monologue, for use in presidential debates. "In America, anything is possible. That’s the American dream—making the impossible possible. And if there’s anyone that can achieve the American dream, it’s Americans"
Comments Carl Zimmer | Being Human | 10 October 2012 History of ideas about the brain. From Aristotle's idea of the brain as refrigerator to Hilary Putnam's brain-in-a-vat thought experiments. And what about the future? Would you upload your brain to a computer? Comments Stephen Burt | VQR | 12 October 2012 Harvard English professor discusses his cross-dressing habit. "I am a literary critic and a writer of verse, a parent and husband and friend, before and after I am a guy in a skirt, or a guy in blue jeans, or a fictional girl" Comments | 
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