Science & Technology – Week of 12.08.13

By BBC Google has puts its first detailed maps online of North Korea, a country that has so far been mostly blank on the search

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard China has succumbed to hubris. It has mistaken the soft diplomacy of Barack Obama for weakness, mistaken the US credit crisis for

By James Carroll Will the fiscal collapse that has laid bare gross inequalities in the US economic system lead to meaningful reforms toward a more

By Margot Roosevelt Investigators look at the company’s role in cementing the deepwater drill hole in the Gulf of Mexico. Transocean and BP also face

“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” ~Senator Everett Dirksen By Catherine Austin Fitts Today, I checked into my hotel