Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 6 August 2012 "Big chains thrive because they provide goods and services of greater variety, better quality, and lower cost than would otherwise be available. Size is the key." Why not for healthcare too? Gawande weighs the case for and against Comments Craig Collie | Telegraph | 3 August 2012 Gripping account of mission to bomb Nagasaki. Original target was Kokura, but bad weather forced a last minute change of plan. The explosion was huge: Paper spontaneously incinerated 3km out; glass was blown out of windows 8km away Comments Raghuram Rajan | Fault Lines | 4 August 2012 Economist responds to Michael Sandel's book What Money Can't Buy. Sandel suggests reducing the role of money. For Rajan the issue isn't money per se, but whether it is perceived to have been honestly and deservedly gained Comments Yanis Varoufakis | Valve Economics | 3 August 2012 Economics of self-organisation at Valve Software. "Many corporations let employees allocate 10% of working time to projects of their choosing. Valve insists that employees allocate 100% of working time to projects of their choosing" Comments Marina Akhmedova | OD Russia | 4 August 2012 Long, vivid, harrowing account of drug culture in Yekaterinburg. Translated from the Russian. Which is just as well, since the Russian original, in a tribute to its accuracy, has been banned by the government, and deleted Comments Christine Rosen | New Republic | 12 July 2012 On the philosophy of technology. The question used to be: "What are we going to do with this technology?" Now we need to ask: "What is this technology going to do with us?" Technology is power-seeking. It has an agenda Comments | 
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