House prices force Americans to sleep in cars: Organisers of the programme say they are seeing ever more unlikely people living out of their cars in the exclusive beachfront city of Santa Barbara, where the average house costs more than $1 million(£500,000). Many hold down part-time jobs while bedding down for the night in their vehicles. [Telegraph]
Our Electric Brain: If you’ve been fussing over a birthday gift for the sci-fi nut or armchair transhumanist in your life, consider a ticket to Lausanne, Switzerland. That’s where, in one corner of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an IBM supercomputer is quietly making some fitful first steps toward consciousness. Its name is Blue Brain. Its job is to simulate, at the cellular level, the interaction of neurons. [Adbusters]
Thrills and spills: The Michael Jackson phenomenon represented a golden age - the peak of the music industry. The only way was down. [New Statesman]
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