Liaquat Ahamed got the idea for his book when he read "The Committee to Save the World," abt Greenspan. dld.bz/HXRm Banking NPR

Jonathan Weiner: founders of modern science hoped to solve the problem of mortality. [Long for This World] Immortality dld.bz/KfRt

Food sellers must not strive for uniformity in product, but make a virtue of variation and seasonality. [Michael Pollan] dld.bz/HfH5

Gideon Rachman: "a faith in democracy – expressed most famously by Francis Fukuyama’s essay." [Zero-Sum Future] WSJ NPR dld.bz/KkVU

Is the universe finite or infinite? [Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality] dld.bz/H4Pb dark matter cosmology physics mathematics

Living at home is a way for young people to retain stability at a critical life-stage. [Not Quite Adults] dld.bz/HCAE parenting

AutismOne: autism is caused by too many vaccines given too soon dld.bz/FjCQ panicvirus mnookin npr cnn foxnews

Nancy Marie Brown: Pope Sylvester II (999-1003) was known as "the Scientist Pope." [The Abacus and the Cross] Religion dld.bz/Ktxg

Astronomers theorize that the faster expansion rate is due to a mysterious, dark energy. dld.bz/HDrF cosmology universe SciFri

Eduardo Porter: .. relative costs and benefits open to them determine their behavior. [#Price.. Everything] Economics dld.bz/K7ZA