Vaclav Havel | Project Syndicate | 19 December 2011 "A good politician should be able to explain without seeking to seduce. He should humbly look for the truth of this world without claiming to be its professional owner. He should alert people to the good qualities in themselves" Comments Anonymous | Economist | 17 December 2011 Super piece on science of pedestrian behaviour, how we negotiate space as we walk down busy pavements. “At low densities, behaviour is cognitive and strategic. At high density, it’s about mass movement and physical pressures" Comments Charles Clover | FT | 16 December 2011 Conversation with chess supremo turned politician, Gary Kasparov. "I used to play chess expecting to win. But politics was not about winning or losing. It was about losing. From the beginning the position was a dead loss" Comments Xavier Marquez | Abandoned Footnotes | 14 December 2011 The more that underlings flatter their leader, the lower their collective status becomes. And yet, in authoritarian regimes, they compete to do so. A tragedy of the commons. It's how Caligula ran Rome, and Stalin ran Russia Comments Patrick Lin | Atlantic | 15 December 2011 Philosopher discusses morality issues surrounding robot warfare. Interesting throughout. "Robots can do many of our jobs better than we can, and maybe even act more ethically, at least in the high-stress environment of war" Comments Adrianne Jeffries | BetaBeat | 13 December 2011 Scary prospect: Banks using information from your Facebook, Twitter accounts to determine your credit worthiness. It may not be a nightmare vision of the future. A new wave of startups are building the algorithms to make it happen Comments | 
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