Mat Honan | Gizmodo | 22 March 2012 Fundamentals have changed. Google's model no longer to maximise market share. That's done. Now comes time for monetising captive audience by whatever means available. Google's core product is no longer search. It's Google Comments George Packer | New Yorker | 20 March 2012 Don't minimise or medicalise alleged war crime of Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. Don't say 'I told you so' and, certainly, don't praise it. But do put it in context, and think about how and why this conflict is being conducted Comments Carl Zimmer | Discover | 20 March 2012 The brain contains 100 billion neurons, which are joined together by a quadrillion connections. It’s these links that allow for learning and memory. But no scientist has mapped this complex web, the connectome. Enter Sebastian Seung Comments Charles Kupchan | Atlantic | 20 March 2012 Robert Kagan says America can go on ruling the world. Obama agrees. But they are wrong, and dangerously so. Denial of decline encourages strategic complacency. America needs to adapt its posture: Less hard power, more diplomacy Comments Tauriq Moosa | Big Think | 21 March 2012 "Why do we say it's fine for a person to destroy his lungs, drive extremely fast cars, drink excessively, but not end his life upon his choosing, with his full consent, and painlessly?" Does this make us hypocritical? Comments Arika Okrent | Lapham's Quarterly | 22 March 2012 Investigating the act of gesturing. Even the congenitally blind, when addressing others they know are blind, use gestures as they speak. Why would this be? "When we form our thoughts into speech, some of it leaks through our hands" Comments | 
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