Edward Luce | FT | 30 March 2012 Outstanding essay looks at America's economic and political malaise. A country where the Walton family is worth as much as bottom 150 million. "Brain power is America’s future. But it doesn’t always appear too cerebral in practice" Comments Marcus du Sautoy | Observer | 1 April 2012 "Turing might be disappointed that in his centenary year there are no machines that can pass themselves off as humans but I think that he would be more excited by the new direction artificial intelligence has taken" Comments Stephen Marche | Esquire | 28 March 2012 The old are eating the young. They may not have set out to do so, but economic and social policy has been rigged to serve their interests. It's unaffordable socialism for the old; virulently purified capitalism for the young Comments Eric Klinenberg et al | Guardian | 30 March 2012 "During the past half-century, our species has embarked on a remarkable social experiment. For the first time, great numbers of people – at all ages, in all places, of every political persuasion – have begun living alone" Comments Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | Independent | 31 March 2012 British were right to fight, but wrong not to make some compromise with newly democratic Argentina in the years that followed—for example, by agreeing to share revenues from offshore oil, or to transfer legal sovereignty Comments Jonah Lehrer | WSJ | 31 March 2012 Autism is better understood as a deviation than a disorder. So what seems like a deficit is actually a trade-off – poor communication skills may go with high perceptual capabilities and ability to process lots of information quickly Comments | 
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