From Wired, an article on The Godfather of Bangalore; and a look at how math unraveled the "Hard Day's Night" mystery. Could climate change and economic collapse consign us to the same fate as the Mayans? Farhad Manjoo on a radical business plan for Facebook: Charge people. An article on LinkedIn, the site that likes a bad economy. Great expectations: Should doctors give patients placebos? The beauty world is traditional in one respect: nepotism.  A look at what the public doesn't get about climate change. Al Gore on the Climate for Change: How we can save the economy and the earth at the same time. Why, after 30 years of deregulation, is the state bigger than ever? Scott McLemee reviews The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles by Lawrence Brown and Lawrence Jacobs. The scariest part about the economic collapse is that, even still, nobody knows what's going on. From Capitalism, a look at how the connection of Alan Greenspan to Ayn Rand, decades ago, is being used to blacken her name and her ideas. Where did Adam Smith go wrong? Michael Walzer investigates. From The National, on his ride to work, Mansour Ajami takes in humanity: rushing, sleeping, phoning, listening humanity; and a review of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection by John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick.