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The economic summit meeting that opens in Tokyo on 4 May could be a chance to put the West's affairs in better order. But the precedents are discouraging.
It is too easy to forget that pre-Victorian physics ascribed memory to lumps of iron. Now this still surprising phenomenon has a mathematical basis to call its own.
