Simon Baron-Cohen | Scientific American | 9 November 2012 Anecdotal evidence from Silicon Valley and Bangalore suggests so. So does Baron-Cohen's own research in the Netherlands. Can other factors, such as fetal testosterone levels, also affect one's chances of developing autism? Comments Robert Reich | Robert Reich | 7 November 2012 President Obama now has an opportunity to recast the economic debate. "Our central challenge, he should say, is not to reduce the budget deficit. It's to create more good jobs, grow the economy, and widen the circle of prosperity" Comments Richard Florida | Atlantic Cities | 5 November 2012 Long-time Wired editor quits to build drones. Hobby that became a business. "Once, to get into manufacturing, you needed to own a factory. Now all you need is a web browser and a credit card to get robots in China to work for you" Comments Yanis Varoufakis | Thoughts For The Post-2008 World | 5 November 2012 Under intense external pressure, Athens is giving "the wheel of depression another powerful turn". It's the greatest fiscal squeeze ever attempted in peacetime. Not only will it not work, it'll be counterproductive, says Varoufakis Comments Rob Dunn | Slate | 2 November 2012 Left to their own devices, queen bees fight each other to the death. The bigger one almost always wins. Inside the hive, that's not the case: Somehow the workers influence the result so it's not always the biggest that wins. How? Comments Mike Dash | Smithsonian | 6 November 2012 How did newsmen get their pictures from the battlefield when cameras were bulky to carry around? "The best solution was to wait for the fighting to die down and then enlist any nearby soldiers to produce a sanitised reconstruction" Comments | 
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