Justin Heckert | NYT | 15 November 2012 Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a congenital insensitivity to pain. It's a very rare condition stemming from a genetic mutation. "Her life story offers an amazing snapshot of how complicated a life can get without the guidance of pain" Comments Peter Green | TLS | 14 November 2012 Agreeably waspish, even envious, review of Artemis Cooper's biography of the writer and traveller. "His undeniable charm was frequently interpreted as an attribute of the freeloading gigolo with a weakness for titled ladies" Comments Stephan Faris | Businessweek | 15 November 2012 War in Syria is being waged not just in the streets and countryside, but in cyberspace. Through Facebook pages and YouTube accounts, hacks and counterhacks, the two sides are engaged in a vicious battle for supremacy Comments Marian Stamp Dawkins | Edge | 14 November 2012 Problematic to talk about animal rights on the basis that animals have consciousness much as humans do, because we don't understand consciousness. At most we can talk about animal welfare. What is good for animals is good for humans Comments Colin Burrow | London Review Of Books | 13 November 2012 On the naming of characters in fiction. "Henry James was a great fretter over names, as you might expect from someone who had the same names as his father, both of which could be interchangeably a surname or a first name" Comments Leo Babauta | Zen Habits | 13 November 2012 Do you measure the miles you run, the calories you consume, the hours you sleep or work? If so, think about this: "When you track a metric, you are saying that’s more important than all the things that can’t be measured" Comments | 
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