Jerry Adler | Wired | 3 August 2012 Outstanding article on high-frequency trading. "Stock quotes are always to the penny, but real prices can go to six decimal places. No sane person would haggle over a ten-thousandth of a cent. But computers don’t get bored" Comments Julia Ioffe | New Republic | 6 August 2012 Acute, well-reported account of Pussy Riot trial in Moscow. Punk group's song-and-dance protest in Moscow cathedral offended many. But grotesque show-trial has made them "a nation-wide hit and a liberal cause célèbre" Comments Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 7 August 2012 China’s fallen political grand dame, Gu Kailai, faces a show trial without the show. She'll be convicted of murder. "It is far easier, after all, to hold high one bad apple than to upturn the entire cart in search of the worm" Comments Joe Posnanski | Sports On Earth | 7 August 2012 So farewell Michael Phelps after 22 Olympic medals, 18 of them gold. Here, with the help of 1992 double gold medallist Mel Stewart, is a fascinating insight into what it means to be a swimming perfectionist, and to lay it aside Comments Daniel Grushkin | Fast Co.Exist | 6 August 2012 "In the short lifetime of the biofuels business, Amyris has become legendary – a stand-in for the sector’s breathtaking promise and now for its troubling descent." One of the most innovative startups. But what is it now? Comments Ben Popper | Verge | 8 August 2012 Meet the "grinders": Keen to get a head start on the rest of us, these amateurs are already implanting machines into their bodies. A first step towards becoming cyborgs. Reporter pays them a visit, leaves with a magnetic finger Comments | 
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