Mat Honan | Wired | 6 August 2012 "In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed." Honan's Google account was compromised and deleted; his Twitter account spued out racist tweets; and all data was erased from his iPad, iPhone and MacBook. Here's how Comments Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 6 August 2012 "Big chains thrive because they provide goods and services of greater variety, better quality, and lower cost than would otherwise be available. Size is the key." Why not for healthcare too? Gawande weighs the case for and against Comments Amartya Sen | New Republic | 2 August 2012 Masterful essay assesses history of European integration, and the political and economic challenges facing single currency. "It is difficult to see austerity as a soundly reasoned economic solution to the European malaise" Comments Mike Marqusee | Mike Marqusee | 4 August 2012 "The boosterism is relentless. Commentators rush to squeeze the events and results into preferred narratives and to draw an apposite moral lesson. These lessons are invariably platitudes." So here's a different interpretation Comments Alexander Smoltczyk | Spiegel | 7 August 2012 Siena used to be model city. Beautiful, prosperous. Now it's probably bust. Familiar Italian story—but with a twist. City controls Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, and used it as giant slush fund. Whoops. Billions down drain Comments Jerry Adler | Wired | 3 August 2012 Outstanding article on high-frequency trading. "Stock quotes are always to the penny, but real prices can go to six decimal places. No sane person would haggle over a ten-thousandth of a cent. But computers don't get bored" Comments Joe Posnanski | Sports On Earth | 7 August 2012 Handball. It's a bit of a mystery to many of us. Joe Posnanski goes to a game expecting to write about the valiant-but-sure-to-lose Great Britain team. He stumbles, enjoyably, across something else entirely Comments Mark Edward | Alternet | 3 August 2012 "Yes, I can see the future, given the right perspective and information, and of course I can read the paw of your pet poodle. I may have a great gift, but it's the gift of gab mixed with a healthy dose of imagination and nerve" Comments | 
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