Steve Weinberg | NYRB | 19 April 2012 Physicists want bigger and bigger machines to discover smaller and smaller things. They've bored a tunnel 17 miles long in Switzerland to look for a particle that may not exist. Is science on this scale worth the cost? Comments Michael Hudson | INET | 13 April 2012 Financial sector and rentier partners captured gains, then spent part of these gains on acquiring powerful voice in political process. In courts and academia too. This sacrificing of economies to creditors should be reversed (PDF) Comments David Gessner | On Earth | 20 April 2012 "If we expected the entire Gulf to become a toxic gumbo of Louisiana sweet crude and dead animals, then no, the 'worst-case scenario' didn’t come to pass. But if we don't address long-term degradation that will be a worse fate" Comments Marc Levinson | Bloomberg | 18 April 2012 Nobody does microeconomics better than Marc Levinson. How a change in depreciation rules for sewing and cutting machines in 1962 transformed not only America's clothing industry, but also New York. This column is worth a book Comments George Makari | NYT | 16 April 2012 Psychiatrist reflects on nature of anxiety, and its varied history. "Present medical classifications offer up a smorgasbord of disorders variously defined by the quality of nervousness, the object of terror, or its source" Comments Charles Nicoll | London Review Of Books | 18 April 2012 On the trail of the lost Leonardo mural. Was it, as was assumed for centuries, demolished and irrevocably lost? Or was it perhaps merely hidden from view, covered over, preserved by Vasari behind the surface of his own fresco? Comments | 
