William Little | FT | 21 April 2012 Lab-grown meat was predicted by Churchill; tried by Nasa. Now the first in vitro burger is set to come out of a Dutch lab. It will cost 250,000 euros and isn't classified as food, so you can't eat it. But could this be the future? Comments John Kay | John Kay | 18 April 2012 "We claim to believe that there is an objective method by which all right thinking people would, with sufficient diligence and intelligence, arrive at a good answer to any complex problem. But there is no such method" Comments Graeme Wood | Boston Globe | 15 April 2012 Portrait of African city taken lately by Tuareg rebels. Wreathed in fantasy and romance. Grew rich on the salt trade. "One could think of Timbuktu as the farthest inland port city in the world, and of the Sahara as its ocean" Comments Aidan O’Donnell | OUP Blog | 19 April 2012 Michael Jackson's doctor gave him Propofol, an anaesthetic drug, as a sedative. Bad move. "Propofol doesn’t cause sleep. If given enough, it will cause oblivion, but the cerebral activity necessary for sleep does not take place" Comments Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 17 April 2012 You will be familiar, from Cold War history, with the alleged "missile gap". But are you familiar too with its precursor, the pigeon gap? Oh yes, there was a time when pigeons formed a vital part of a country's military capability Comments Robert Moor | n+1 | 19 April 2012 A large island off the Australian coast with colourful locals, easy hitchhiking, dangerous snakes, and a modern art museum built by a video-gaming tycoon. Exhibits include the Epic of Gilgamesh written in binary code Comments | 
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