links for 2007-12-29

• Cooking Up Bigger Brains - Scientific American
• In Japan, Inflation Surges and Job Market Sags - New York Times
• China Lets Currency Appreciate a Bit Faster - New York Times
• New-Home Sales Fell to 12-Year Low in November - New York Times
• As Iraqis See It - The New York Review of Books
• 'Supercapitalism': An Exchange - The New York Review of Books