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Today, Web Monitor finds out what's being said on the web. Share your favourite bits of the internet by sending a link via the letters page.

• Fantasy writer in the Daily Telegraph how Alzheimer's disease is affecting him:

"I might glance down and not see that cup on the floor. If you told me the cup was there, I would see it. However, the brain is filling up the space with something else. But because I come out with words properly used, like apprehension, you think there can't be anything wrong with this guy."

• He helped bring the world's attention to global warming in the 1970s but that we needn't worry about over-population as technology will come up with the answers:

"Technology has liberated humans from the environment. Today we live about equally well in polar and tropical, arid and wet environments. The new question is whether humanity can use technology to liberate the environment itself. E-books, landless agriculture - farming that uses very little land because of high yields - and subterranean maglevs show the way."

• Writing before Angela Merkel's re-election this weekend whether the German chancellor deserves to be a feminist icon:

"She may be something of a feminist icon overseas but things look a bit different back home in Deutschland.

Here in Germany the woman nicknamed 'Angie' by her supporters, is known more for her detached ability to rise above the fray than any staunch political convictions, let alone feminist policies. Indeed, Merkel has tended to shy away from playing the female card. She doesn't push women's issues or speak very much about her gender. Yet in the run-up to this weekend's election, she seemed to have changed tack. Suddenly she had discovered the advantages of her gender."

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