The new Middle East?
(cross-posted from Core) Though the Assad regime is still brutalising the Syrian population in a desperate attempt to hold onto power, the post-Spring contours of...
Is Kong Is Coming
http://youtu.be/hOI7G2j_pRM
Delong calls the end of American exceptionalism
A nice Project Syndicate column from Brad Delong. This is how it starts. When French politician and moral philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville published the first...
Privacy, responsibility and the flow of information
This NYT article highlights something I've long gone on about - the serendipity of information. Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan stared at a printout of gene sequences from...
NT election 2012 – a watershed moment in Australia’s history?
[This was written on Sunday. An edited version was published at the G8 universities site The Conversation late this afternoon.] The Northern Territory's Labor government...
The end of the Greek bailout and how Greece could end up with two currencies.
By October 8th of this year, the European Finance ministers must decide whether or not to send Greece 11.5 billion Euros in bailout funds, based...
Tom Keating
I just discovered Tom Keating, an art forger. I was reading a junky $5 book in a book remainders store on famous criminals (as you...