Jason Schwartz | Boston Magazine | 29 September 2012 Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts just six years ago. Yet today he's so unpopular there he's barely bothering to campaign in the state. Why did the voters became so alienated? Comments Brad Plumer | Washington Post | 28 September 2012 Massive multiplayer online games have economies so big and complex that they need full-time economists to run them. Eve Online has eight. Valve has hired a top eurozone analyst to organise a monetary union across its various games Comments David Deutsch | Aeon | 3 October 2012 Laws of physics tell us that artificial intelligence must be possible. So why does it have such a long record of failure? What is it that may unblock our understanding? And is there a role for philosophy here? Comments Karen Russell | GQ | 3 October 2012 A year ago, a famous Spanish matador received one of the most horrific injuries in the history of bullfighting. Amazingly, he survived the severe facial goring. Even more amazingly he's now back in the bullring Comments James Surowiecki | New Yorker | 1 October 2012 Mitt Romney assails those "dependent upon government". He means people on Medicaid, Social Security and those who receive earned-income tax credit. But what about those companies reliant on government assistance for their profits? Comments Tom Carver | LRB | 4 October 2012 Travels in the footsteps of Kim Philby, who spent seven years in Beirut before defecting to Moscow. Wrote for The Economist, freelanced for the British secret service, drank heavily, ran off with a friend's wife, kept a pet fox Comments Steven Strogatz | NYT | 1 October 2012 How many people do you need to assemble before there's a 50-50 chance that two of them share a birthday? You know that the number is counter-intuitively low (it's 23). But do you know why? If not, invest a couple of minutes here Comments Steven Poole | Guardian | 27 September 2012 Rambling but enjoyable diatribe against foodism. "Western civilisation is eating itself stupid. We are living in the Age of Food. Food becomes not only spiritual nourishment but art, sex, ecology, history, fashion and ethics" Comments | 
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