David Samuels | Businessweek | 13 December 2012 In 2002, Jack Whittaker, a 55-year-old contractor from West Virginia, won $315m in the lottery. It got him into the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest amount of money won in a lottery. And it ruined his life Comments Gary Marcus | New Yorker | 13 December 2012 "Computer processors keep getting faster and faster. But the motors and actuators that move robots aren't improving nearly as fast. Battery technology, too, is key — moving quickly, but not quite keeping pace with Moore" Comments Judith Shulevitz | New Republic | 6 December 2012 We are having our children much later than we used to. Both men and women. And we are only very slowly becoming aware of the consequences Comments Dwight Garner | NYT | 4 December 2012 Richard Bradford gets savaged for his biography of Martin Amis. "Like watching a moose try to describe a leopard, using only its front hooves." If we ever publish "The Browser Anthology Of Hatchet Jobs", this will be in it Comments Justin Smith | Berfrois | 12 December 2012 Modern Western culture sets humanity above and apart from other animals in a way probably without historical precedent. "Animals, now conceptualized as pure commodities, exist entirely outside the bounds of moral community" Comments Mark Leibovich | NYT | 12 December 2012 Iran and the eurozone could, in different ways, blow up. But could's the operative word; not even those smart people at the Economist know for sure. They do think Castro's going to die though. And it'll be a big year for neutrinos Comments | 
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