Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker

Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker

A Critic at Large: MORE HARM THAN GOOD : The New Yorker

A Critic at Large: MORE HARM THAN GOOD : The New Yorker

The New Atheists' Narrow Worldview

http://chronicle.com/article/The-New-Athe-ists-Nar-row/126027/
In the developing world, the wacky, superstitious, cuckoo aspects of some religious beliefs can seem as rational as Western science.

Huston Smith's The World's Religions is one of the best brief introduction to the major faiths.

The Trouble With Autobiography

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-Trouble-With-Autobiography.html
Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux examines other authors' autobiographies to prove why this piece will suffice for his.

Caribbean Medical Schools

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/nyregion/23caribbean.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
New York Medical Schools fight to prevent Caribbean medical school students from completing part of their core education in NY hospitals alongside US medical students.

The Captive Arab Mind

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/opinion/21iht-edcohen21.html

Keep the Internet Free

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/steve-wozniak-to-the-fcc-keep-the-internet-free/68294/
Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) to the FCC.

Top Secret America

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/monitoring-america/

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.

The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

The Real Science of Mind

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/a-real-science-of-mind/

In Defense of Disgust

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/12/in-defense-of-disgust
Is the emotion of disgust a result of natural selection? Surely in part it must be. But does evolution give us a complete picture?