1. Seymour Hersh says the U.S. is a state sponsor of terror in The New Yorker

2. Rogoff calls the world economy a runaway train

3. The World Bank on Chinese investment in Africa

4. Landmark HIV ruling in Kenya

5. Is America in a class war?

6. Indian intellectual giants, on India

7. More wisdom of whores

8. Cornstarch + water + boom box = freaky and creepy:

Via Boing Boing.