Alexis Madrigal | Atlantic | 29 February 2012 "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." 105 companies (at least) are tracking your browsing habits for money. It's why most web sites can seem free. You should probably know about it Comments Matthieu Aikins | GQ | 5 March 2012 Gripping inside account of 20-hour siege on American embassy in Kabul, days after 10th anniversary of 9/11. "The fiction of common interests that has underpinned US-Pakistani relations is wearing thin" Comments Sam McNerney | Why We Reason | 5 March 2012 The great debate over how we make decisions just took a new turn. Neuroscientists have argued over relative influence of reason and emotions. But a new paper raises a critical issue: Can we even agree what emotions are? It seems not Comments Adam Curtis | BBC | 6 March 2012 "In the 1970s everything changed. For that was the moment when religion was deliberately brought into politics in both America and Iran with the aim of using it as a revolutionary force." Curtis tells the story of how it happened Comments Paul Krugman | NYT | 5 March 2012 "Times of economic disturbance and disorder, of crisis and chaos, are times when economic analysis is especially likely to be wrong. Yet such times are also when economics is most useful." Full transcript of recent Krugman speech Comments Caroline Winter | Businessweek | 2 March 2012 "The most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja? It's a unique gift that you either have or you don't." Says Oliver Samwer, one of three brothers who do not have ideas. They just copy others. And make billions Comments RM | Economist | 2 March 2012 Really? Let's have a look at crime rate, abortion, charitable giving, affiliation with religion and out-of-wedlock births. And, while we're at it, let's think about what "moral" really means. Sober, sensible, interesting analysis Comments Aldous Huxley | Letters Of Note | 6 March 2012 Remarkable letter from Huxley to Orwell, written in 1949. "I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World" Comments | 
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