Kelefa Sanneh | New Yorker | 2 January 2012 Republican voters find the idea of an outsider appealing. But what exactly does being an outsider mean? Sanneh joins the idiosyncratic Newt Gingrich on the campaign trail to find out if he could be that candidate. Good read Comments Thomas Rogers | Salon | 1 January 2012 Conversation with Harvard researcher David Weinberger on impact of the Internet. Can too much information harm our brains? How is the nature of expertise changing? Why should we value networked thinking? Interesting throughout Comments Christopher Joyce | NPR | 2 January 2012 Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. Researchers give a group of professional musicians several violins to play blindfolded, with at least one Stradivarius among them. They can't tell the difference. Neither can you, probably Comments Alastair Smith | Economist | 1 January 2012 "The brilliance of the Soviet regime was not just that you relied on few people, but that there were lots of replacements. This put your core circle on notice that they were easily replaced. That made them horribly loyal" Comments David Warsh | Economic Principals | 1 January 2012 Silicon Valley booms. New England declines. Thanks partly to an argument at MIT in 1950s about how to make semiconductors. Robert Boyce had the right answer, but lost the argument. He moved to California, tech moved with him Comments Mark Winegardner | ESPN | 2 January 2012 At the age of 13, Satnam Singh Bhamara was already 6'11". His father, a farmer in rural India, mounted a basketball hoop to a wall. His son continued growing. Now 16, and over seven feet tall, could Bhamara be India's Yao Ming? Comments | 
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