Michael Wolff | MIT Tech Review | 22 May 2012 Against Facebook. Provocative from the off: "Facebook is not only on course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it." It's a marketing business, run by geeks. It's not the next Google, it's the next AOL Comments Michael Sandel | Boston Review | 21 May 2012 Sandel considers where economic markets belong. "Suppose, on your wedding day, your best man delivers a heartwarming toast, a speech so moving it brings tears to your eyes. You later learn that he bought it online. Would you care?" Comments Carl Zimmer | Loom | 23 May 2012 Another magnificent piece of writing from Zimmer. This time on arctic adventurers, fish, and "one of the most crucial transitions in history of life": How the first tetrapods emerged from water, and started to move about on dry land Comments Brian Greene | Newsweek | 21 May 2012 Notion that there are more universes separate from ours is one of the most polarising concepts to have emerged from physics in decades. Is it the next phase in our understanding of reality, or nonsense? And why should we care? Comments Michael Wolff | New York | 20 May 2012 Son's plea to let his mother go. "By promoting longevity and technologically inhibiting death, we have created a new biological status held by an ever-growing part of the nation, a no-exit state nearly as remote from life as death" Comments Jared Diamond | NYRB | 17 May 2012 In "Why Nations Fail", Acemoglu and Robinson argue that institutions determine national prosperity. Not history and geography. Diamond reaches for a synthesis—that history and geography determine institutional formation Comments Raffi Khatchadourian | New Yorker | 13 February 2012 Just ungated. Dallas Wiens lost his face in an electrical accident. Burned down to the skull. Surgeons gave him another one. A transplant. Procedure is new, rare, long and complicated. 19 tried. Only this one has worked well Comments Philip Hensher | Telegraph | 23 May 2012 On the Gatsby renaissance. Why now? "The novel, with its clear sense that money comes and goes, and that detachment from opulence is as empty a gesture as indulgence in it, seems to come to mind whenever we aren't doing so well" Comments | 
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