Paul Mason | BBC | 2 October 2012 Spain dealt with the aftermath of civil war and Franco's rule with a "pact of silence". But now that pact is falling apart. Signifiers of crisis are mounting: Acute class divisions, street violence, outright civil disobedience Comments Jack Shafer | Reuters | 28 September 2012 "Although the networks, newspapers and Web obsess about what the candidates say in the debates, the battle is largely visual. The best, and in many ways the intended, way to watch the presidential debates is with the sound off" Comments Kenneth Rogoff | Project Syndicate | 1 October 2012 Philosophers and economists have long predicted that technological progress will bring mass unemployment. Instead it generates new jobs, new markets. For example: Computer chess has led to booming demand for chess professionals Comments Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 2 October 2012 Water. Do you know how much you use? You might be horrified if you did. Physicist Tom Murphy takes a measuring stick to personal and public usage. Don't worry, your survival's not at stake. But the way you live might have to change Comments Sean Carroll | Discover | 1 October 2012 Cosmologists have reconstructed the history of the universe back to a few seconds after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. Now the push is on to go back further still, to within a fraction of a second of the beginning of time Comments Lawrence Osborne | WSJ | 27 September 2012 Portrait of the late Patrick Leigh Fermor, "war hero, self-made scholar, greatest travel writer of his generation". Max Hastings called him "the most brilliant conversationalist of his time, wearing his literacy light as wings" Comments | 
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