• Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read.
• Sir Ken Robinson on Creative Education.
• New Zealand and Charter Schools.
• Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can’t Search.
• People out of touch with nature and Climate Change - Sir David Attenborough.

• Google, Chrome and the importance of Firefox.
• A case study in the muddle that is Android software updates.
• When Criminals Become Data Scientists.
• Internet surveillance, censorship, and avenues of resistance with anonymity - Jacob Appelbaum (scroll down).
• Jan Chipchase, It’s your Face, Not Ours.
• The Social Graph is Neither.
• Why The New York Times Isn’t Using Facebook’s ‘Frictionless Sharing’.

Big Biometric Database – what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.fastcompany.com/1790444/the-downside-of-biometrics-9-million-israelis-records-hacked

What would Socrates Say? Technology and Learning.
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept09/vol67/num01/What-Would-Socrates-Say%C2%A2.aspx

Why Science Museums are Failing Adults
http://boingboing.net/2011/09/23/science-museums-are-failing-grown-ups.html

Neal Stephenson, Innovation Starvation
http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation

Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs
http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs/single-page/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/14664694

Stephen Wolfrom remembers Steve Jobs
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memories/

David Frum, Why I am a Republican
http://www.frumforum.com/why-i-am-a-republican

John Young writes on, US Education Secretary, Arne Duncan’s epiphany.

12 Nasa Blueprints – selected engineering drawings for the US space program.

In the Financial Times: ”A failure of economic strategy and leadership lies behind the near simultaneous collapse of market confidence in the eurozone and US economies.”  Tripped up by globalisation.

Data is hard. In the Guardian, headlines that spring from faulty analysis.

Interview with Gorbachev.

“The companies who we appear loyal to are those that best help us define, refine, and express who WE are. “Your customer wont take a bullet for you – Kathy Sierra.