Marshall Auerback | New Economic Perspectives | 13 February 2012 "The market’s judgement is wrong: An outright default might ultimately prove the better tonic for both Greece and the eurozone." Would be messy but better than Portugal, Ireland left asking "If Greece doesn't have to pay, why do I?" Comments Eric Been and Michael Goetzmann | LA Review Of Books | 10 February 2012 Review of John Jeremiah Sullivan's "Pulphead". And interview with author. Who is increasingly being acclaimed as the next David Foster Wallace. Though he appears here to be a touch less cerebral and a lot less frenetic Comments Megan McArdle | Atlantic | 11 February 2012 The American taxpayer has fixed all the obvious problems at General Motors. Cost base transformed. Brands repositioned. But finally we bump up against corporate culture. Can that be changed, or does GM carry failure in its DNA? Comments James Ryerson | Slate | 10 February 2012 Eleven philosophers get an offer through the mail to read and review a manuscript. Fee: $12,000. They accept. It's not a work of genius, but nor is it nonsense. Who is the elusive author, and what does (s)he get out of it? Comments Cyrus Farivar | Ars Technica | 9 February 2012 Report on Nicholas Negroponte's ambitious One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Two million computers have been handed out, across 42 countries. So what lessons has OLPC taught us about the role of technology in education? Comments Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 10 February 2012 Did Glamis Castle, in the Scottish lowlands, have a secret to hide? Dash picks up the story of "an enigma that involved a hidden room, a secret passage, scandal, and shadowy figures glimpsed by night on castle battlements" Comments | 
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