Back with The New Yorker
By Tom Teicholz at 28 July, 2008, 4:41 pm
For the last month or two, the New Yorker had lost me. I would pick up the issue, look at the table of contents and then the maazine would sink back down into a pile….of other New Yorkers. However, I must say that the current issue once again had a complement of interesting articles. First off, Evan Osnos article on young Chinese nationalists, inspired by Leo Strauss, as sort of neo-con Chinese, have harnessed the internet to speak out for China — was well reported and yet another one of those “when the sleeping giant wakes’ articles It was thought that the internet would bring down Chinese communism as shopping brought down the Berlin Wall — may not work out that way — 10 years after Tianenmen square there’s a new generation of conservatives.
There was aso an article about “the Eureka” moment and how it happens. As far as I can tell the article discusses research and breakthroughs made that have taught more about the pre-frontal lobe where the aha occurs and the certitude that follows it. But why and how we know — that remains speculative.
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