Joshua Hammer | Vanity Fair | 10 October 2012 "The big question every reader will want to know is, how and why does a person become an art forger?" says Wolfgang Beltracchi. And, as mastermind of one of the most lucrative art frauds in postwar European history, he should know Comments Charles Duhigg & Steve Lohr | NYT | 7 October 2012 Patents are vital, but are being misused. In software, they're now often broad and vague, covering concepts rather than defined processes; they're being traded; and they're being used as weapons, sometimes cynically, against rivals Comments Carlos Duarte | Huffington Post | 8 October 2012 "Yesterday my daughter emigrated in search of a future she couldn't find in her country and that society, or her parents, didn't know how to give her." A lament for Spain. And a denunciation of its politicians (h/t @rszbt) Comments Patrick Symmes | Outside | 9 October 2012 "Goals are nice. But fighting is forever." Inside the frightening world of Argentine football "fan clubs". Which operate more like violent criminal syndicates, having captured a good chunk of the clubs' economic value Comments Bill Keller | NYT | 7 October 2012 In praise of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient, a protocol used in British hospitals. You halt the insulin and antibiotics, pull out the IVs, let the patient drift towards a dignified death on a cloud of morphine Comments William Kremer | BBC | 9 October 2012 "The way we behave in lifts, or elevators as they are known in the US, reveals a hidden anxiety. It has been observed that lift-travellers unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements, as predetermined as a square dance" Comments | 
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