Paul Krugman | NYT | 5 March 2012 "Times of economic disturbance and disorder, of crisis and chaos, are times when economic analysis is especially likely to be wrong. Yet such times are also when economics is most useful." Full transcript of recent Krugman speech Comments Sam McNerney | Why We Reason | 5 March 2012 The great debate over how we make decisions just took a new turn. Neuroscientists have argued over relative influence of reason and emotions. But a new paper raises a critical issue: Can we even agree what emotions are? It seems not Comments Aldous Huxley | Letters Of Note | 6 March 2012 Remarkable letter from Huxley to Orwell, written in 1949. "I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World" Comments Jeff Wheelwright | Discover | 5 March 2012 "Shonnie Medina was a happy girl who felt she would die young." This is the story of how 185delAG became the most studied, and worried about, piece of DNA in history. It is a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, and it causes breast cancer Comments Paul Pillar | Washington Monthly | 6 March 2012 "One must ultimately ask whether the conjectured consequences of an Iranian bomb would be worse than war with Iran. The conjectures are just that. They are worst-case speculations, not adequate justifications for going to war" Comments Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry | Atlantic | 6 March 2012 The ingredients are much the same: Private medical institutions, job-linked private insurance, Medicaid-type provisions for the poor. Yet the French system works beautifully, and keeps costs down. What's the French secret? Comments | 
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