Adam Curtis | BBC | 21 October 2012 Subtitle: How Colonel Gaddafi and the Western establishment together created a pantomime world. Gaddafi was both baddie and goodie at different times, and he was happy to play along, as Curtis, in his inimitable style, explains Comments Tyler Cowen | TLS | 19 October 2012 Economics of the Great Recession. "We were not as wealthy as we thought we were, and this has required some fall in living standards. In such an environment, just about any macroeconomic recipe will appear to under-perform" Comments Dave Cameron | Walrus | 22 October 2012 "While most people associate Alzheimer’s with memory loss, its effects on reasoning and behaviour are no less defining, and arguably more problematic." Cameron spends time with sufferer Lowell Jenkins to find out how he manages Comments David Runciman | LRB | 20 October 2012 Critical review of "The Occupy Handbook". "How were we duped? Mainly by not paying attention. The 1 per cent didn’t conspire to rip everyone else off. They got their way by walking through the door we left open for them" Comments David Ropeik | Scientific American | 22 October 2012 "The trial was not about science, not about seismology, not about the ability or inability of scientists to predict earthquakes. These convictions were about poor risk communication" and allowing people to make informed choices Comments Ben Zimmer | Atlantic | 18 October 2012 "In 2010, Google unveiled an online tool for analyzing the history of language and culture as reflected in the corpus of historical texts that have been scanned and digitized as part of the Google Books project." It just got better Comments | 
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