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New Scientist reports on a study that indicates paedophiles may have less grey matter. The legal implications are enormous. What if a court finds such anomalies in brain as admissible for a plea?

You can run away but you can't forget. MIT Technology Review on How Ads Affect Our Memory

Physicist Freeman Dyson asks young people to be heretic. He shows how by saying: "...all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated".

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The Pope is likely to have a lot of reading soon:
From the annals of dystopian architecture: the New York Times reports on a trend in US communities to build nominal parks to drive out sex offenders.