Michael Skapinker | FT | 21 December 2012 On the history and plentiful peculiarities of English orthography. "Why is English spelling such a tangle? It started when Latin-speaking missionaries arrived in Britain in the 6th century without enough letters in their alphabet" Comments Isaac Stone Fish | Foreign Policy | 20 December 2012 Politics is a family business in almost every Asian country—even democratic ones. Why? Because family names are more trusted than party names as electoral "brands". Good PR to have an ancestor who fought for independence (Reg reqd) Comments Daniel Engber | NYT | 21 December 2012 All cancers are different but traditional treatments tend to take a one-size-fits-all approach. Does the future lie in personalised therapies, developed after analysis of an individual's unique cancer cells? Comments Paul Mason | BBC | 18 December 2012 "If you get down to Cabanyal, the tough working class area at what used to be Valencia's dockside, you can see the threat to the status quo." Young, working class men without work and calls for a revolution from the right Comments Simon Garfield | WSJ | 21 December 2012 Apple Maps stands at the end of a long line of cartographic error. Mountains of Kong featured on world maps and atlases for almost the entire 19th century, despite not existing. And those sea explorers loved inventing islands Comments Tracy Clark-Flory | Salon | 22 December 2012 Philosopher Alain de Botton's new book on sex fills the gap between Plato and Cosmo. "I've come up with this theory that it's really all about loneliness — that overcoming of loneliness is sexy. You feel properly accepted" Comments | 
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