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Digital highlights, November 26th 2011
Nov 24th 2011, 19:11 by The Economist online
Debate: Carbon control
Combating climate change by stripping most of the carbon out of power-station emissions and storing it underground in old oil and gasfields seems appealing. But can climate-control policies rely on carbon capture and storage, or is the economic case too weak? Join the debate
Evolution of a debacle
In May 2010 The Economist’s cover showed helicopters flying over the Parthenon and trumpeted: “Acropolis now: Europe’s debt crisis spins out of control”. The continent’s woes have continued to keep our cover designer busy. From waterfalls to sieves and plugholes, here they all are
The social future
Sheryl Sandberg, the number two at Facebook, makes predictions for “The World in 2012”, our sister publication. She explores the implications of “Zuckerberg’s law” on the amount of information people will share and foresees a convergence between our virtual and tangible selves
Britain: A proposed parliamentary reform
Banning MPs from switching parties without consulting their constituents might make them more accountable
Middle East: Drawing the revolution
A political cartoonist is enjoying the freedom of post-Ben Ali Tunisia
Americas: Good copper bad copper
Codelco and Anglo American battle over a stake in a mine
Asia: Cautious dance of the giants
As America wades back into South-East Asia after a decade dawdling, China’s nationalistic press sounds the alarm
Business: The return of the Eclipse
The very light jet that was supposed to revolutionise flying, but didn’t, gets a second chance with a powerful backer
Business: More than skin deep
Evelyn Lauder, who died this month, was a businesswoman whose work spanned cosmetics and cancer
Finance: Clicks and mortar
An interactive overview of global house prices and rents
Technology: Reviving autopsy
A novel way to examine the dead using medical-imaging technology
Sport: Helping destroy apartheid
The life of Basil D’Oliveira
Technology: Difference Engine
Fabricating missing body parts for two superannuated motor cars
Business education: Why are you here?
One student realises that his application consultant is not talking much sense
Culture: Still solving riddles
Björk, a musician, talks about nature, modal patterns and Icelandic sonic traditions
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- The euro crisis: The Greek run
- Foreigners in China: Barbarians at the gate, again
- Brazil’s economy: A bull diminished
- Russia and NATO: Rethink the reset
- Gay marriage: North Carolina begs the question too
- Nationalism online: Backfired
- Turkey’s cultural ambitions: Of marbles and men
- Politics and private equity: Bringing the Bain
- India-China relations and the media: Blame the messenger
- Greece and the euro: Exodus, chapter 1
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- Jacob Zuma: Portrait of a president
- Rival versions of capitalism: The endangered public company
- Bo Xilai v Chen Guangcheng: Who is the mightier?
- Facebook goes public: Not top of the pops
- France and Germany: The Frangela show
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Join the climate control debate? There is no debate. It's been over for years. The debate now is about survival: half, a quarter of the world population?
We have believed Adam Smith's invisible hand theory of the market controlling itself too long. Now we find in extreme cases, it all blows up! And that's the nature of every system we have on earth; agriculture, transportation, distribution,...we have control over nothing and now find they won't run themselves.
Let's debate that.