Mike Lofgren | American Conservative | 27 August 2012 "The super-rich have seceded from America even as their grip on its control mechanisms has tightened. But how did this evolve historically, what does it mean for the rest of us, and where is it likely to be going?" Comments Imraan Coovadia | NYT | 28 August 2012 Commentary on Marikana confrontation that led to S African police killing 34 striking miners. Could it be "that workers’ violence endangers the country less than the unreal ways in which the superrich take pleasure and show power"? Comments Susan Gaidos | ScienceNews | 27 August 2012 "Biologists have long been puzzled by the molecular events that take place during that momentous embrace between sperm and egg." But now at last researchers are starting to understand the remarkable behaviour of the egg Comments Gavin Mueller | Jacobin | 29 August 2012 Provocative essay compares software pirates to seafaring pirates. "The decaying corpses of executed pirates were chained to trading posts from Ghana to Virginia as warnings to others. Brutal examples were set. And so it goes today" Comments Brett Forrest | Businessweek | 23 August 2012 Viber is an app that lets you talk and text for free from your mobile phone. Developed in Minsk, it currently has 100 million registered users. And 10 million more are joining each month. A most unlikely success, this is its story Comments Brian Appleyard | Brian Appleyard | 19 August 2012 "Not long ago he was a great striding Aussie bull, confidently chuckling his way through life, art and literary society." But now the poet and critic, 72, is a shuffling old man laid low by leukemia, depression, broken marriage Comments | 
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