- Excerpts from a Human Rights Humour Blog – In Brazil, they make you join a gang when you go to prison. In Angola, a death squad murders a film crew staging a bank heist movie. (via Marginal Revolution)
- Gandhi Pills – Forget about athletic performance enhancing drugs, or cognitive performance drugs, what we need are drugs that make you a better person. (Wired Science)
- Hot, Flat & Crowded – The New York Times review of Thomas Friedman’s new book. (NYT Books)
- The world’s verdict will be harsh if the US rejects Obama – Jonathan Freedland describes how the view of the US in the rest of the world will continue to spiral downward if Obama is not elected. (The Guardian)
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