VS Ramachandran | Edge | 20 February 2012 Neuroscientist explains mysteries of synesthesia (hearing colours, tasting sounds), apotemnophilia (wanting to have healthy limbs amputated), reflex sympathetic dystrophy (feeling chronic pain from minor injuries). Fascinating Comments Kelefa Sanneh | New Yorker | 20 February 2012 With Ron Paul. "When he warns against threatening Iran, or calls the war on drugs 'a total failure,' or observes that 'rich white people don’t get the death penalty very often,' he seems like a man competing in a separate contest" Comments Jonathan Tasini | Playboy | 16 February 2012 Forgive the NSFW wrapper to read the Nobel prize-winning economist talk politics, economics, even music. Interesting throughout. "We should not be using the language of sacrifice to talk about how we deal with the current slump" Comments Toby Jones | Nation | 15 February 2012 Pity poor Hamza Kashgari. He made some injudicious comments on Twitter and now he's a pawn about to be sacrificed by the Saudi ruling family. This has little to do with the sanctity of Islam; everything to do with power politics Comments John Carlin | FT | 17 February 2012 Chelsea paid £50m for him and almost immediately he descended into a catastrophic and inexplicable loss of form. From which he has yet to emerge. But why does this sometimes happen to top sportspeople, and what can they do about it? Comments Maria Farrell | Crooked Timber | 18 February 2012 "IVF is highly political. It’s unpleasant, tiring and time-consuming. It’s bloody expensive. In all these respects, it’s perhaps not bad practice for the down-sides of parenthood. And at least it gives us a chance" Comments | 
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