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December 2013:

Steven Pinker: "Science is not your Enemy" (New Republic)
Cyber-espionage by the USA (Spiegel)
Jackson Lears: "Same Old New Atheism" (Nation)
Caitrin Nicol: "Do Elephants Have Souls?" (New Atlantis)
Kevin Kelly: "Better Than Human: Why Robots Will - And Must - Take Our Jobs" (Wired)
Matt Labash: "The Twidiocracy" (Weekly Standard)
>>> Steven Teles: "Kludgeocracy in America" (National Affairs)
Douglas Coupland: "Notes on 21st Century Relationships" (FT Magazine)
One third of US citizens don't believe in evolution (Yahoo News)
How Your Data Are Being Deeply Mined (New York Review of Books)
Fighting for the Soul of Ukraine (New York Review of Books)
The anti-masturbation movement (New York Magazine)
The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted? (New York Review of Books)
Britain grants a posthumous pardon to Alan Turing, the computer pioneer who committed suicide after he was convicted of the then crime of homosexuality (Yahoo News)
Obamacare poll (CNN)
Museums and visitors by country (Economist)
The price that societies pay for alcohol (Economist)
Boycotting Israel and not China makes no sense (CNN)
The world's E-waste (Yahoo News)
A US drone kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake (Yahoo News)
BlackRock (Design Trend)
Transient electronics (Phys.org)

November 2013:

>>> Graphene (Design Trend)
China's aggressive military policy (BBC)
Secrets and lies of the financial bailout (Rolling Stone)
George Packer on Silicon Valley (New Yorker)
Steven Johnson's reply to Packer's article (Medium)

October 2013:

Newt Gingrich on Obamacare (CNN)
Pakistan lowers number of civilians killed by drones (BBC News)
The damage caused to the USA by the war on terrorism (Yahoo News)
Bankers and crooks (Bloomberg)
A split in the Republican Party (Atlantic)
>>> The U.S. Government: An insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army (Washington Post)
Saudi Arabia upset at US policy in Syria and Iran (Yahoo News)
Pakistanis in favor of drone strikes (Economist)
The myth of the medical device tax (New York Times)
Civilian victims of drone strikes (Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
Civilian victims of drone strikes (Columbia Univ Law Dept)

September 2013:

Losing the war on drugs (Yahoo)
Somali-Americans fighting for Al-Shabaab (CNN)
The world's most valuable companies (Economist)
Putin's letter to the New York Times on Syria (New York Times)
Child bride dies in Yemen after wedding night (Yahoo News)
One man in four admits raping a woman in East Asia (BBC News)
Smart cities (Economist)
A viral video of a girl performing sex on a boy and the moral standards of 2013 (Telegraph)
The USA does not trust Pakistan (Washington Post)
A polarized USA (Pew Center)
The British public on attacking Syria (BBC)

August 2013:

The truth about genetically-modified food (Scientific American)
Labels for GMO Foods Are a Bad Idea (Scientific American)
Don't trust China's inflated economic data (Yahoo News)
Boko Haram's terrorist campaign in Nigeeria (Yahoo News)
Investors pulling out of India (Bloomberg)
Ubiquitous listening (Technology Review)
An explanation for Near-death experience (Science)
Elon Musk's Hyperloop public transportation (SpaceX)
Generating power from winds at higher altitudes (New Yorker)
Are we losing the battle against cyber crime? (New Yorker)
The price of protecting land is income inequality (Bloomberg)
Poor states don't grow richer as fast as rich states (Harvard)
Russians oppose homosexuality (Pew Center)

July 2013:

Report on the children of immigrants (Foundation for Child Development)
How bread brought down Morsi (Yahoo News)
Victims of rape sentenced to jail in the United Arab Emirates (CNN)
The Mystery of Income Inequality (Forbes)
Humor about lawyers
The Republicans on Immigration Reform (CNN)
Zimmerman vs Martin (CNN)
An Al Jazeera article that shows how ridiculous their stories can be: the funding mentioned in this article took place before Morsi was elected president (Al Jazeera)
Pakistani report on Osama bin Laden (BBC News)
>>> Pakistani report on Osama bin Laden that emphasizes incompetence at all levels of Pakistani government (BBC News)

June 2013:

What to do in Syria according to Hussein Ibish (Yahoo News)
The NRA presses Delaware to allow the mentally insane to own guns (Yahoo News)
China resettling two million Tibetans
The USA is the fastest rising oil producer in the world (Wall St Journal)
Hamas urges Hezbollah to withdraw from Syria (Haaretz)
Al Qaeda has surface to air missiles (Yahoo News)
Hezbollah in Syria (Yahoo News)
Richard Dawkins on Islam (Richard Dawkins blog)
Qatar inciting rebellion against Syria's Assad (Yahoo News)

May 2013:

Conference on drones (Yahoo News)
Why Russia sells weapons to Syria (BBC News)
Most disruptive technologies (McKinsey)
Iran bans women from running for president (BBC)
Business running away from Bangladesh (New York Times)
Health hazart of marijuana (Scientific American)
Record number of teens smoke marijuana (Scientific American)
62 percent of women age 20 to 24 who gave birth in the previous 12 months were unmarried (Census Bureau)
Arabs oppose arming the Syrian rebels (Yahoo News)
Suicide rate soars in the USA (BBC News)

April 2013:

March 2013:

A solution for nuclear waste (MIT Technology Review)
Safer nuclear power at half the price (MIT Technology Review)
Chile's Silicon Valley (Foreign Policy)
Record disability in the USA (NPR)
Turkey and CIA arming Syrian rebels (New York Times)
Islamists, not Assad, used chemical weapons in Syria (Haaretz)
Against gay marriage (CNN)
The ad generation (Business Week)
Environmental dementia in Yosemite (Mercury News)
The human cost of fossil fuels (Scientific American)
Success rate of Israel's missile defense system (BBC)
Women in Holland prefer not to work (Slate)
66% of South Koreans said they support developing a nuclear weapons program (CNN)
Kim Ghattas on Hilary Clinton (CSpan video)
Iraq ten years later (CNN)
Muslim Brotherhood defends violence against women as a right of men (New York Times)
How to revive movements in crisis (New York Times)
>>> Jeremy Grantham on unsustainable growth (Charlie Rose video)
Billionaires dumping stocks (Money News)
Antibiotics resistance as big a risk as terrorism (BBC News)
Drugs that slow the ageing process may become available this decade to help people live to 150 years (UNSW)
Palestinians killed the little girl, not Israel (Yahoo News)

February 2013:

Revising the data for the Nazist concentration camps (New York Times)

January 2013:

Xi's speech on the equal status of China's communist revolution and of China's reforms (Palladium)
The Islamists of Mali (New York Times)

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