Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 29 August 2012 "He is the frontman of an economic revolution, in which transactions are manufactured instead of products, wealth is generated without prosperity, and Cayman Islands partnerships are erected while American communities fall apart" Comments Brett Forrest | Brett Forrest | 26 August 2012 On the trail of Grigori Perelman, brilliant Russian mathematician who solved the Poincaré Conjecture and later turned down a $1m reward for his work. After some amateur sleuthing, Forrest finds the reclusive genius in St Petersburg Comments Sarah Stillman | New Yorker | 27 August 2012 American police bully small-time drug users into serving as informants in high-risk drug and firearms investigations. It's a good deal for the police: Informants are cheap and biddable. Less so for the informants: They tend to die Comments Nicholas McGinnis | Rotman Institute Of Philosophy | 25 August 2012 "Everybody who likes Rand can defend at great length a number of socio-economic theses; what very few do is discuss the metaphysical underpinnings that purportedly justify her political and social views" Comments David Streitfeld | NYT | 25 August 2012 Man opens website offering to write paid book reviews online. Two years later he's making $28,000 a month, pumping up writers' Amazon ratings. Reviews "have to be somewhere between enthusiastic and ecstatic" Comments Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 21 August 2012 Batteries. Useful, even essential for modern living. But do they live up to expectations? And how much are we going to be able to improve them? A physicist crunches some numbers, with specific reference to electric and hybrid cars Comments | 
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