Emily Willingham | The Crux | 11 July 2012 Autism is like a pool muddied by murky streams. Willingham clears these up. You'll see the whole business — surface, depths, contours — far better Comments David Brooks | NYT | 19 July 2012 In this "age of anxiety", Obama has managed foreign policy very well. "You don’t need big, bold visionaries. You need leaders who pay minute attention to the fleeting properties of each region’s specific circumstances" Comments Kevin Mitchell | Wiring The Brain | 5 July 2012 To understand intelligence, maybe we should look not for what creates it, but for what destroys it. Fresh thinking and a great example of why scientists should blog Comments Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 20 July 2012 "Every country has, along with its core civilities and traditions, some kind of inner madness. In America, it is the belief that guns designed to kill people can be widely available and not end with people being killed" Comments Mark Oppenheimer | Nation | 11 July 2012 Profile of David Frum. Coined the phrase "axis of evil" when writing speeches for George W Bush. Now he's a leading critic of the Republican right. Says the party has changed, not him. Truth is more complicated. And Canadian Comments Jeremy Clarke | Global Mail | 19 July 2012 Last year, 151 athletes in the world ran under two hours, 10 minutes for the marathon. Of these, 121, including the 20 fastest, were Kenyan. Clarke visits the village of Iten in the Kenyan highlands to find out how they did it Comments |