Kate Kovarovic (American): Our "Jack Bauer" Culture: Eliminating the Ticking Time Bomb Exception to Torture. Where news is power, a fight to be well-armed: Before dawn, young staff members in Washington scan dozens of news sources, summarizing, spinning and compiling reports for their bosses. A study has found that studies need to find more previous studies to cite in current studies. Is the iPhone bad for the American economy? From U.S. Intellectual History, a look at the strange, transatlantic career of "neoliberalism" (and more). A new ark for humanity: The rising sea waters caused by global warming have inspired a Russian architect to design a hotel that could be built on water as well as land. Newly published research finds people give more generously to relief efforts following natural disasters, effectively penalizing the people caught up in man-made catastrophes. The unfree world: Freedom House's 2011 list highlights an ongoing democratic decline (and more). Wikileaks and Karl marx: The most obvious source of profit, the very reason for a capitalist society to invest in information technology, is to extract value by selling information as a commodity — meanwhile information technology has steadily undermined the practicality of treating information as property. Did we learn anything from the BP oil spill? The National Oil Spill Commission has given marching orders on how to prevent another disaster — but will Congress listen?
