Ron Taffel | AlterNet | 22 February 2012 "I’m seeing mothers and fathers challenge the entire social, educational, professional, and economic context of childrearing—a system, they increasingly believe, that’s made effective parenting almost unachievable" Comments Teller | Smithsonian | 22 February 2012 "Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years." So says Teller, silent half of Penn and Teller. And this is what he's learned about manipulating the mind Comments Chris Dillow | Stumbling And Mumbling | 20 February 2012 As the crisis rumbles into its fourth year, the real costs are ever-more apparent. Unemployment is the biggest scourge, and I have a lot of sympathy with this suggestion for a modern version of the Works Progress Administration Comments Stephen Marche | Walrus | 20 February 2012 Why does Canada exist at all? You have to be a Canadian to ask that question politely. Here it is, asked and answered. A citizen's guide to the War of 1812, when the United States tried to take the rest of the continent and lost Comments Ronald Bailey | Reason | 17 February 2012 Fine essay-review of new book on the politics of bioethics: "Neoconservative worries that alienation and commodification are caused by technology stem from a worldview that mixes Marxism with the philosophy of Martin Heidegger" Comments Anonymous | Economist | 24 February 2012 Pakistani politician, tribal chieftain, country gentleman. "Epitome of the swashbuckling Frontier rogue." Kept a rocket-propelled grenade-launcher by the door and a murderer as bodyguard. Led occasional small wars, reprisals Comments | 
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