Links for Dec 4. Remarkable indeed..

BBC – Future – Technology – Shaping the slums: Rethinking Brazil’s favelas

BBC News – Mobile phone £6,875 bill for decorator Chris Wilson

BBC News – Downward mobility haunts US education

The Keynesian Fixation | askblog

World’s Most Beautiful Canal Cities – Articles | Travel + Leisure

The world’s commodity supercycle is far from dead – Telegraph

Loss of income caused by banks as bad as a ‘world war’, says BoE’s Andrew Haldane – Telegraph

It’s Time for a Carbon Tax : The New Yorker

The Secret War Between iOS and Android in the Office | MIT Technology Review

BBC News – ‘Binge-drinking gene’ discovered

Top five regrets of the dying | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

Should I eat less fruit? | Life and style | The Guardian