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23 June 2012
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Triple book review is the peg for this critical account of Obama administration's response to financial crisis. Key economic advisers were too close to Wall Street; banks didn't pay any appropriate price for mayhem they inflicted Comments
Marvin Minsky, pioneer of artificial intelligence, believes original lofty goals of his field lie neglected. Will we bother making a truly intelligent machine? Or will the shallow technology in mindless machines prove too effective? Comments
Good state of the nation piece, following recent death of Crown Prince Nayef. "The Al Sauds’ central nervous system has grown weak," says a Riyadh lawyer. "They can respond to pain, but not to stimuli like complaints or new ideas" Comments
How the premature death of Turing's first love changed him forever. "Perhaps his suicide was one last experiment. On that cold, wet Whit Monday, did Turing take his own life in the hope that they would be together once more?" Comments
First-hand account of family member's descent into mental illness. "Eventually one nurse took pity and told us that he had indeed filled out the form but had granted access only to Barack Obama and Duke Ellington" Comments
A chronic anorexic endangers her life by not eating. She has a history of mental illness, alcohol and substance abuse. Two options remain: Hospitalisation and force-feeding, or death. She refuses treatment. Should she be coerced? Comments
Britain is a bewilderingly motley nation of phlegmatic grumblers, says the author and editor – a seaside resort-going, class-conscious people haunted by loss of empire, and we can’t even agree on what the country is called
Should we worry about war conducted by remote control? Are there ethical considerations? Will we become accustomed to unmanned warfare in the future? What if a hacker took control of an army? It's all here
Bettany Hughes says: “Sappho was a priestess for Aphrodite and one of the things she was trying to do was to coach young girls in how important love is in all its aspects”
"If by intellectual you mean somebody who works only with his head and not with his hands, then the bank clerk is an intellectual and Michelangelo is not"
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