Jonathan Mahler | NYT | 1 August 2012 "Last spring, as the Occupy movement struggled, vainly, to recapture its lost energy in New York and elsewhere, in Oakland it remained vital. Occupy Oakland was the show that wouldn’t close." Mahler visits the city to find out why Comments Ryan Mac | Forbes | 1 August 2012 Stanford professor David Cheriton once wrote a cheque for $100,000 to two budding entrepreneurs. Their names? Sergey Brin and Larry Page. His investment turned out to be worth $1bn, but Cheriton still cuts his own hair Comments Steve Randy Waldman | Interfluidity | 31 July 2012 "Wealth is about insurance much more than it is about consumption. As consumers, our requirements are limited. But the curve balls the universe might throw at us are infinite." As is shown by the example of a libertarian Titanic Comments Mike Loukides | O'Reilly Radar | 31 July 2012 "Science is not about agreement on settled fact; it’s about pushing into the unknown and about the intellectual ferment and discussion that take place when you're exploring new territory." Fine reflections on scientific method Comments Mary Mycio | Slate | 30 July 2012 "The first people known to celebrate hierarchies of power, whose inequalities of wealth were integral to their society and culture — the people you could call the first 1 percent — were the first people to ride horses" Comments Neal Ascherson | London Review Of Books | 1 August 2012 Super piece about knowing, and reading, Ryszard Kapuściński. An elusive, complex man and fine writer, if occasional purveyor of "gonzo Orientalism". Ascherson unpicks the question marks over veracity and politics very well Comments | 
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