Jason Sheeler | Texas Monthly | 24 September 2012 Meet Kermit Oliver, painter, mystic and recluse. Works the night shift sorting mail in a Waco, Texas post office. Mourns his son, who was executed for murder. And designs silk scarves for the Hermès fashion house in Paris Comments Benjamin Wallace-Wells | New York | 23 September 2012 "As a church leader, Romney seemed devoted to a Mormon ethic of sacrifice for the welfare of the group, an almost communitarian system of belief. As a candidate, his philosophy has been nakedly individualistic." How to square them? Comments Michael Hudson | Michael Hudson | 24 September 2012 "Some ways of getting rich are corrosive, not productive. The wealthiest 10% have got rich mainly by getting the bottom 90% into debt. This isn't industrial capitalism. It's a regression to the usury problem that destroyed Rome" Comments Rob Blackhurst | Telegraph | 24 September 2012 "The plane cannot start, cannot fly and cannot release a weapon without us doing it. Human beings are in the cockpit – exactly the same as when I was flying a Tornado. We just happen to be 8,000 miles away from the plane" Comments Joseph Konstan, John Riedl | IEEE Spectrum | 24 September 2012 "Have you ever wondered what you look like to Amazon? You are a very long row of numbers in a very, very large table. This row describes everything you’ve looked at, everything you’ve clicked on, and everything you’ve purchased" Comments Jackson Landers | Slate | 20 September 2012 Birds, snakes, lizards, turtles: All are said to taste of chicken. But why? Do they have a common evolutionary link? A distant ancestor that was the first creature to taste of chicken? Landers heads back 350 million years for clues Comments | 
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