Nick Hanauer | Bloomberg | 1 December 2011 After Buffett, Hanauer. "I'm a very rich person. And I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs. Middle-class consumers do." So put purchasing power back in their hands by taxing the rich, and watch businesses grow Comments Rose Eveleth | Scientific American | 30 November 2011 Conventional assessments of low-functioning autistic children focus on what they can't do. How about discovering what they're good at? It's not that they can't learn. It's more that they don't learn the way that average kids do Comments Robert Draper | NYT | 30 November 2011 On the campaign trail with Mitt Romney, as rivals implode around him. "The data-driven former corporate consultant seems like a man puzzling his way to victory, doing and saying whatever might solve the problem immediately at hand" Comments Joshua Rothman | Boston Globe | 26 November 2011 Good backgrounder on quantum computing. A technology that could revolutionise how we think about logic, mathematics and the universe. Even failure to make it work might have important implications for our understanding of physics Comments Belén Fernández | Guernica | 1 December 2011 Takedown of Thomas Friedman, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes. "Friedman’s writing is characterised by a reduction of complex international phenomena to simplistic rhetoric and theorems that rarely withstand the test of reality" Comments Alexandra Molotkow | Toronto Life | 1 December 2011 "I am part of the first generation to come of age online, and my adolescent development dovetails with that of the social web. I’ve lived over half my life through the Internet. We grew up publicly, and we grew up fast" Comments | 
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