Malcolm Gladwell | New Yorker | 7 November 2011 Compelling read on character, sensibilities and skills of Steve Jobs. Part Gladwell analysis, part review of Isaacson biography. Neither hagiography nor hatchet job, but perhaps damning with faint praise Comments Gavyn Davies | FT | 6 November 2011 Eurozone is rich, with balance of payments surplus. No grounds for international help. Problem is internal. Germany was financing peripheral countries with private lending. Now it wants to stop, suddenly. Result: crisis Comments Sean Carroll | Discover | 4 November 2011 For all their searching, physicists know of just four forces that influence particles: Gravity, electromagnetism, strong, and weak, nuclear forces. Researchers keep hunting for a fifth, but what are the chances of finding another? Comments Ezra Klein | NYRB | 24 November 2011 Wrong to blame Geithner, Summers for Obama's weakness, as Ron Suskind does in "Confidence Men". Blame Obama himself, for underestimating 2008 crash. There again, if he had attempted strong remedies, Congress would have blocked him Comments Henry Hitchings | Salon | 6 November 2011 History is littered with the gravestones of artificial, universal languages. Who now speaks Cosmoglossa, Interlingua, Romanizat or Molog? English remains dominant lingua franca. But as it spreads, it's splintering into many variants Comments Jesse Green | New York | 6 November 2011 Irving Kahn is about to celebrate his 106th birthday. He still goes to work every day. Scientists are studying him and several hundred other Ashkenazi Jews to find out what keeps them going. And going. And going Comments | 
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