Tuesday links: India, Free trade, cruise liners, test-tube burgers and more

6 August 2013 10:50

An American in Paris: two exceptional posts from Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates about his experiences in France. The piece on the cultural power of English is particularly good.
Why was an Australian initiative to secure dangerous radioactive materials around our region cancelled?
India will launch its first indigenous aircraft carrier next week. More images here.
TIME magazine's 25 best bloggers of 2013. I particularly like World War 2 Today, reporting the war one day at a time.
New research on the link between free trade and inequality.
Floating embassies: the cruise industry, born in the 1950s, had an explicit affinity with 'one-world' liberal idealism, and you can still see vestiges of it today.
So what does the test-tube beef burger that could change the face of world agriculture actually taste like?

'Down and out down under'