Dan Buettner | NYT | 24 October 2012 The Greek island of Ikaria, about 30 miles off the Turkish coast, has an astonishing number of very old people. In good health too. How do they do it? Buettner, who studies longevity, goes to investigate Comments Devin Leonard | Businessweek | 25 October 2012 Fascinating feature about beer behemoth, AB InBev, owner of Budweiser, Stella Artois, Beck's and much more. The boss is 52-year-old Brazilian, Carlos Brito, who sounds like an ascetic fellow for a CEO, and a ruthless cost-cutter Comments Dieter Bohn | Verge | 29 October 2012 Google is using what it knows about you (a lot) to build Google Now. It combines voice search with "cards" that guess what you might want to know at any given moment. It's a kind of pre-emptive search. In time, it'll run our lives Comments Andrew Solomon | NYT | 31 October 2012 Parents of prodigies explain. One likens prodigiousness to disability. And Ken Noda has a great insight into how musical prodigies are able to express (adult) emotion in their playing, and why so many go on to have midlife crises Comments Simon Schama | Newsweek | 29 October 2012 On 50 years of Bond, and what it says about Britain. Placebo for disappearing empire, fantasy of manly British style, exploration of British impotence. In "Skyfall", it's "Freud rather than Blofeld lurking in the dystopian darkness" Comments Sadanand Dhume | Wilson Quarterly | 18 October 2012 Will India become the first "fallen angel" of the BRICs? The talented don't go into public service. Parties are family fiefdoms and personality cults. Nearly a third of state and national legislators have criminal charges pending Comments Boris Kachka | New York | 28 October 2012 Ouch. "Neuroscience, evolutionary biology, behavioral economics are fashionable because of their newness. In these fields, in which shiny new insights so rarely pan out, every populariser must be, almost by definition, a huckster" Comments Alex Bellos | Guardian | 29 October 2012 The Japanese have stumbled upon an extraordinary way to do mental arithmetic very, very fast: Become proficient with an abacus, then discard it and do your calculations using a mental image of one. The results are mind-boggling Comments | 
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