The danger of high-frequency traders
Why critics fear HFTs are undermining markets, one penny at a time
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Beyond the EEG: Life after ’flat line’
Discovery of a new type of brain activity hints at just how much we have left to learn
The thinking behind the first ‘Vulcan mind meld’
Video: Kate Lunau on the first human brain-to-brain interface
Nobel Prize in Economics could go Canadian
Will it be two wins this year?
Have federal public sector workers really not seen any real wage growth?
The trend in the wage data doesn’t fit the PBO’s narrative, says Stephen Gordon
Canada, Brazil and how snoops are threatening free trade
An in-depth Econowatch report
Did housing kill exports?
Two OECD economists say yes
How Netflix knows who wants to watch what
To find out what people will pay to download, find out what they are torrenting illegally
Will Silk Road crackdown prove to be the best thing ever to happen to Bitcoin?
Researcher argues the benefits of the shutdown
We respected BlackBerry, but we never loved it
Prem Watsa is tugging at heart strings that aren’t attached to anything, says James Cowan