David Bainbridge | Washington Post | 26 March 2012 What are middle-aged people for? David Bainbridge offers a fascinating and oddly cheering answer: They’re an “elite caste” of experts, kept around by evolution to advise the young Comments Anne Applebaum | NYRB | 11 April 2012 Another good piece on Putinism, and Masha Gessen's new book, The Man Without a Face. Read it as a review, or just a fascinating window into the secret police mentality and milieu the Russian leader inhabits Comments Maura Kelly | Atlantic | 26 March 2012 Slow food, slow parenting—why not a “slow books” movement? As words flash past our eyes at ever-increasing speeds, Maura Kelly reminds us to savor what we read Comments Todd Purdum | Vanity Fair | 12 April 2012 "Just because he may have fallen off your radar since he left Fox News doesn’t mean that millions of faithful listeners don’t still harken to his every dog-whistle warning. They do, and their views—and their votes—carry weight" Comments Madhumita Venkataramanan | Wired UK | 11 April 2012 If so, you'll need to show you can solve problems like these. Enjoyable selection, with answers provided. Here's one to get you started: "Using only a four-minute hourglass and seven-minute hourglass, measure exactly nine minutes" Comments Tom Scocca | Slate | 11 April 2012 Enough of the animated paper clip. And the autocorrect. And the HTML crust. And the forcible indenting of anything resembling a list. Word is the fax machine of our time. You really get to hate the people who still use it Comments | 
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