Nassim Nicholas Taleb & George Martin | Fooled By Randomness | 28 March 2012 Scholarly 12-page PDF, so save for a quiet moment, but do read. In brief: The best way to stop banks collapsing is to make their owners and managers personally liable for the consequences. The captain goes down with the ship Comments Eric Ellis | Global Mail | 27 March 2012 Murdoch has been tweaking the British government's tail over Scottish independence and is now remarkably matey with Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond. He does love to back a winner, but what is going on here? Revenge? Comments Ben Tarnoff | NYT | 27 March 2012 The story of Samuel Curtis Upham, an enterprising shopkeeper turned forger. During the American civil war he waged a devastating attack on the South with his counterfeit Confederate banknotes. And destroyed the value of the currency Comments Michael Joseph Gross | Vanity Fair | 30 March 2012 Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty. Just some of the battle lines drawn in the war over the Internet. And part of wider questions of freedom and control. Later this year, the key UN treaty will be revised. Here's what's at stake Comments Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 27 March 2012 Physics professor decides to investigate, and cut, his domestic energy use. Living in San Diego may help, but he managed to get his utility electricity consumption down to a tenth of comparable local homes. This is how he did it Comments Matthew Yglesias | Slate | 27 March 2012 Nobody wants to say they changed the world by inventing an inferior product, but that's how innovation often works. Murray Lender's frozen bagels weren't as good as fresh ones, but they made a niche food into a national favourite Comments | 
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