Hanna Rosin | NYT | 30 August 2012 In Alabama men grew up learning "how to work hard, how to support a family, how to live a good life, how to have the American dream their way". But that structure, those jobs are disappearing. Women are the new breadwinners Comments Leigh Phillips | Nature | 29 August 2012 "Why are radical environmental groups targeting nanotechnology? Is this field being confronted with the same sort of militant hostility that has dogged genetic-modification research and animal testing? And why Mexico?" Comments Cesar Hidalgo | Edge | 28 August 2012 "There is value that gets generated, and there's value that can be appropriated. And they're not the same thing." Traditional measures of value were actually measures of appropriation. But this is now changing Comments Louis Janera | Discover | 27 August 2012 Husband arrives in ER carrying wife upside-down. So long as she's the wrong way up she feels OK. Put her on her feet and she blacks out. She had a heart operation two days before. Challenge for doctor: What's the problem? Comments Oliver Burkeman | Guardian | 28 August 2012 Google and Apple have pretty much realised Borges's fantasy of a one-to-one map of the world. Thanks to which, they can see us everywhere. "There's a fine line between this being really useful, and being really creepy". Comments Paul Cullum | LA Review Of Books | 28 August 2012 Picaresque, trivia-packed essay on "Heart Of Glass", for which Herzog hypnotised his cast. "He was forced to adopt an artificial voice when giving instructions to the crew, lest the entire cast try to follow them automatically" Comments | 
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