Tuesday morning roundup

Pakistan's power grid is awesome in its dysfunction:

Deep-rooted structural issues, exacerbated by political interference and systemic graft, lie at the heart of Pakistan’s power crisis.

Electricity theft, by rich and poor, is common. Slum dwellers steal power through illegal connections; powerful politicians and government departments simply refuse to pay their bills. Electricity officials and the police, fearing retribution, dare not cut them off.

Half-measures won't help Syria (and full measures would be very, very full).

Who the hell does Dave Brooks think he is to declare social science, pseudoscience? In this case, he takes on psychiatry (emboldened by the recent DSM debates). Does he not know that medical doctors also make mistakes, mis-prescribe drugs, guess at symptoms, etc?

Facebook culture may be the end of school papers.