Mat Honan | Wired | 15 November 2012 "Nothing you do, no precaution you take, no long or random string of characters can stop a dedicated and devious individual from cracking your account. The age of the password has come to an end; we just haven't realised it yet" Comments 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 Rachel Shabi | Aeon | 15 November 2012 Critical essay on Israel and its rejection of the other, whether migrants or Palestinians. "It turns out being sealed off doesn't make Israelis feel any safer; all it does is amplify suspicion and insecurity, hatred and intolerance" Comments Jeremy Grantham | GMO | 21 November 2012 "We cling to the idea of the good old days. [But] the US GDP growth rate that we have become accustomed to for over a hundred years – in excess of 3% a year – is not just hiding behind temporary setbacks. It is gone forever" (PDF) Comments Andrew Rice | Businessweek | 21 November 2012 Prices of Hirst's work have been collapsing at auction, since he staged his own $200m sale in 2008. He's in a vicious circle: Trophy-art buyers don't like losers. "Hirst screwed with his market, and it came back to bite him" Comments Jo Chandler | Global Mail | 13 November 2012 The Fore people of Papua New Guinea used to suffer from a mysterious "laughing death" disease they called kuru. Years of painstaking research concluded that it related to their practice of eating their dead Comments Paul Graham | Paul Graham | 20 November 2012 "Ask yourself: who wants this right now? Who wants this so much that they'll use it even when it's a crappy version made by a two-person startup they've never heard of? If you can't answer that, the idea is probably bad" Comments Charles Siebert | NYT | 21 November 2012 Superb account of college football star trying to make it in the NFL as an undrafted free agent. Siebert followed Pat Schiller closely for this story and got to know him well. As well he might; he's the linebacker's uncle Comments | 
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