Dan Buettner | NYT | 24 October 2012 The Greek island of Ikaria, about 30 miles off the Turkish coast, has an astonishing number of very old people. In good health too. How do they do it? Buettner, who studies longevity, goes to investigate Comments Devin Leonard | Businessweek | 25 October 2012 Fascinating feature about beer behemoth, AB InBev, owner of Budweiser, Stella Artois, Beck's and much more. The boss is 52-year-old Brazilian, Carlos Brito, who sounds like an ascetic fellow for a CEO, and a ruthless cost-cutter Comments Maria Margaronis | Guardian | 26 October 2012 Among the fascists of Greece. "Golden Dawn is many things: a party, a movement, a subculture; a vigilante force; a network inside the police and the judiciary." Where the state withdraws, it moves in to fill the gaps Comments Will Hunt | Intelligent Life | 24 October 2012 Will Hunt set out to walk from the southern edge of Paris to the northern, using only catacombs, telecom tunnels and sewers. In all, he spent 40 hours underground in the murk and filth. This is how he got on Comments John Jeremiah Sullivan | NYT | 25 October 2012 "The erotic element of nonerotic massage is somehow comical. To mention it seems louche, but to glide past it is bizarre. There's no other situation in life in which a man or woman touches you the way a massage artist touches you" Comments Deborah Blum | Wired | 23 October 2012 Odourless, almost tasteless arsenic was killers' poison of choice for many years. It was contained in fly paper and easily extracted by soaking the paper in water. Dashiell Hammett wrote a little-known murder story about it Comments | 
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