Marty Makary | WSJ | 21 September 2012 If as a patient you had to choose between hospitals, on what would you base your decision? Clinical excellence? How would you know? Many just go for the place with the best parking. So here are five ways to improve healthcare Comments Paul Graham | Paul Graham | 22 September 2012 "Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding. The only essential thing is growth. Everything else follows from growth" Comments Alec MacGillis | New Republic | 14 September 2012 "Paul Ryan stands as the Republican Party’s big thinker, its philosopher prince." Except he's not really a big thinker. "Rather, he’s a keen observer of Washington’s political culture who has become good—very good—at exploiting it" Comments Hugh Thomson | Aeon | 17 September 2012 "The idea that England 3,000 years ago was already as suburban as the outskirts of Basildon has not been absorbed into the popular consciousness." Bronze Age farmers largely deforested the country by 1000BCE, long before Romans Comments Joyce Wadler | NYT | 19 September 2012 When you're a woman in your twenties, it's raining men. But when you hit your sixties, there's a drought. Men of your age are all chasing women in their forties. Or wearing themselves out trying to hold down a job. Or dead Comments Rohin Dhar | Priceonomics | 28 August 2012 "Used bikes aren’t particularly liquid or in demand compared to other things one could steal (phones, drugs). Yet bikes continue to get stolen, so they must be generating sufficient income for thieves. What happens to them?" Comments | 
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