Hands Off the Wheel - By Cameron Abadi | Foreign Policy

Hands Off the Wheel - By Cameron Abadi | Foreign Policy

Real Health Cost Reform Means Tackling Providers

Real Health Cost Reform Means Tackling Providers: "pThe part of health care reform that progressives have traditionally been most comfortable talking about involves tackling the vested interests of insurance companies. And lately conservatives have cottoned to the strange idea of improving health care by tackling the vested interests of patients. But the core of the issue is and always has been the [...]/p"

The Demographic Group That Should Terrify Republicans | The New Republic

The Demographic Group That Should Terrify Republicans | The New Republic

Making Genocide a Crime (& Living with Hitler's Ghost)

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/buruma51/Englishhttp://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/buruma51/English

At Least Republicans only Drink Their own Koolaid

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-30/jonathan-chait-the-gops-suicide-pact-on-the-ryan-budget/full/

Global Warming: Get Ready -- It's Coming Sooner Than You Think

 http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-29/global-climate-change-freak-storms-are-the-new-normal/full/

Homophobia: A Study

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=single-angry-straight-male

Count Me In as an Elizabeth Warren Cultist!

http://www.tnr.com/article/the-hill/89148/elizabeth-warren-facebook-consumer-protection-patrick-mchenry

Does This Mean We Don't Have to Worry about our Memories as We Age?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/ads-implant-false-memories/

Giving the Stranger a Name (by Paul Theroux)

 http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/may/25/when-youre-strange/

Another Example of Social/Business Change Republicans Are Failing to Recognize

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/health/policy/30docs.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

Two Gender-Based Reading Lists

75 Books for Men (almost all by men)
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/75-books

250 Books for Men (by women)
http://www.joylandmagazine.com/brian/blog/250_books_women_all_men_should_read

There are a lot of good books on both lists.

A Modest Suggestion for Improving Health Care & Reducing Costs

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29bach.html?src=rechp

World War II: Some Moral Questions (without too many answers)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/books/review/adam-kirsch-on-new-books-about-world-war-ii.html?pagewanted=all

Putting some Goldman-Sachs people in jail

Matt Taibbi discusses the sins of Goldman-Sach with Megan McArdle (who seems to have a very tolerant view of white collar crime).  

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/video-taibbi-vs-mcardle-on-goldmans-responsibility-to-its-clients-20110516

NASCAR and Medical Care

I wouldn't have believed this was possible, but here is Atul Gawande speaking on the relationship between winning a NASCAR race and providing top-level medical care (at reasonable cost).

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/atul-gawande-harvard-medical-school-commencement-address.html

Sex and Music

Sex and music -- an ideal combination?   (However, before your dirty little mind gets too excited, this is about the neurology of the two activities.)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576319102118263890.html

The Religion Problem

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/05/23/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/#more-6819http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n11/galen-strawson/religion-is-a-sin

Can people have a spiritual life without religion?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/05/23/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/#more-6819

Some additional speculation on the science of immortality.

While You're Waiting to See the new Terrence Malick film

http://www.thepointmag.com/archive/the-perspective-of-terrence-malick/

A discussion about Malick's first four films -- virtually a whole lifetime's work.

Decision Making: When Things Go Wrong

http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/2011/05/human-factors-and-patient-safety.html

While this is a story about a medical emergency gone bad, it's also about how people in any situation can mangle the decision-making process.    The author of the post is a pilot who specializes in the decision-making process of flight crews, and the logic could be applied to anyone who has to make decisions, particularly time-critical decisions.  

Another Casualty in the Drug War

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-arizona-_n_867020.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk3%7C66223