CJ Chivers | NYT | 18 December 2012 "Aleppo is administered by no one and slipping into disaster. Diseases are spreading. Parks and courtyards are being defoliated for firewood. Trash is piled high beside bread lines where hundreds wait for a meagre supply of loaves" Comments Bela Shayevich and Maria Kravtsova | n+1 | 19 December 2012 Marvellously illustrated conversation with Viktoria Lomasko, Russian cartoonist, illustrator, social activist, best known abroad for her courtroom drawings of the Pussy Riot trial. "An artist must draw to the tempo of what he sees" Comments David Dobbs | National Geographic | 17 December 2012 What gives us our urge to explore? To set out on huge, dangerous expeditions or merely to look around the corner. Exploration may be practical or acquisitive, but is it also innate? If so, how so? Comments Victor Cha | Foreign Affairs | 18 December 2012 North Korea, one year after Kim Jong Un's succession. He was "young, inexperienced, unqualified, and bereft of any of the larger-than-life myths that had sustained his father's and grandfather's rules." But he seems to be thriving Comments Marc Pitzke | Spiegel | 17 December 2012 German wonderment at American gun culture. And who can disagree? "After every shooting rampage, a chorus of voices reliably invoke the argument that the crime may have been prevented had only everyone been allowed to carry a weapon" Comments Giles Milton | Surviving History | 18 December 2012 George Mallory was last sighted on 8 June, 1924, when he and Andrew Irvine went missing while attempting to become the first men to reach the summit of Everest. What happened? Comments | 
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