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"More doctors are turning to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of their patient's brains, but fears of possible seizures may be limiting its growth as a therapeutic tool."
"The Iraqi population is suddenly mourning the departure of American troops, the once-hated occupiers, as fears of a civil war grow." Spiegel reports on what is next for Iraq and its future.
"As the globe logs an unusually hot summer, Canada is boosting its presence in the warming and increasingly accessible Arctic." The Wall Street Journal on emerging geopolitics.
"Despite the death of spam, e-mail hasn't gotten much easier to deal with. That's because our inboxes are inundated with legitimate mail." Slate reports on Google's new 'Priority Inbox'.
As our knowledge of politics expands, we increasingly set out on our quest for social justice over the Internet, which often results in crazed and ineffectual debates in online forums.
"Being a child of a rock legend brings kudos, travel and famous friends—but fatherly wisdom and bedtime stories are rarely part of the deal." The Independent reports on famous families.
In an interview with New Scientist, philosopher Slavoj Žižek says that ecology is the new opiate of the masses, the universe's design is incomplete and Mother Nature is a 'crazy b*tch'.
"If our’ sense of time is largely a cognitive illusion, then where does the illusion come from?" The Frontal Cortex blog follows neuroscientists looking for the nature of time from within the mind.
Scientists at MIT are working to synthesize bacteria found living in sea sponges on the ocean floor, which when in danger emit a chemical that has been shown to eliminate tumor cells.
"Mobile phones have been sold as business tools, fashion accessories and social organisers. But they can also be lifesavers." The Telegraph reports on ten apps with tangible health benefits.
American workers are angry. So are their suffering customers. One of the problems with declining service may be that companies care most about the clients they don’t yet have.
Ross Douthat thought Glenn Beck's star was fading but after attending his weekend rally is reconsidering. "It was a long festival of affirmation for middle-class white Christians."
Acute Screen/Life Confusion, LOLpets Disorder, Generalized Trolling Compulsion, and Comments Derangement Syndrome. Just some of the online maladies you may suffer.
"One of the advantages of looking back on Asimov’s work from the remove of several decades...is that one can see how deeply enmeshed he was in the history of his own time."
Richard Posner warns it's not just Greece that risks seeing its government default on debt. The U.S. has dug itself in deep and also faces that possibility, he says.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki addresses the stoning of adulterers, the consequences of Western sanctions against Iran and the risk of a military strike.
Hoping for a workable alternative to using 'he or she, him or her'? Dennis Baron says wordsmiths have long been coining gender-neutral pronouns, all to no avail.
"Nothing undermines the credibility of any sport more than the suspicion that what you are watching is in fact a fix," intones The Guardian's editorial as a new cricket scandal emerges.
As the waters recede, and the immediate crisis passes, the challenge will be to repair Pakistan’s infrastructure and catalyze its economic recovery, says the New Yorker.rn
Media consultant Frédéric Filloux rejects the notion that the internet has been taken over by mobile applications and that the web as we know it will soon be dead.