Shit Happens, Economics Version – The
Big Picture
Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman doesn’t usually
swear… but it’s unavoidable in this routine (“S*** happens: the economics
version”). Filmed at the 2012 American Economic Association humor session in Chicago, Jan 7, 2012.
Tomb raiders – FT
John Ray: From King Tutankhamen’s tomb to the Rosetta
Stone, Egyptology enters the 21st century and proves to be worth further
studies
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 6 Notes
Essay – Blake
Masters
Here is an essay version of my class notes from
Class 6 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good
stuff is Peter’s entirely. This class was kind of a crash course in VC
financing.
Book Bits – The
Capital Spectator
Summaries
of eight recent books
The Ayatollah Under the Bed(sheets) – Foreign
Policy
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, all politics may not
be sexual, but all sex is political.
The Illusion of Choice – Chart Porn
I find it as interesting to look at the
minimalist design inherent in modern logos as the ownership concentrations.
PEOPLE
The First Global Man – Foreign
Affairs
The Americas Before and After Columbus
When Einstein Met Tagore – brain
pickings
Collision and convergence in Truth and Beauty
at the intersection of science and spirituality.
How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre – NYT
When Jackson’s character was
killed off in a version of “The Long Kiss Goodnight” that was previewed before
a test audience, at least one member in the audience yelled out, “You can’t
kill Sam Jackson!”
Popular Writers: A Stephen King interview – Neil
Gaiman
David and Société Générale – Testosterone
Pit
Look who's fighting back: Jérôme Kerviel, the
meek-looking French guy who became famous in January 2008 as the junior trader
who’d lost €4.9 billion at French mega-bank Société Générale.
SCIENCE
The Crisis of Big Science – The
New York Review of Books
Steven Weinberg: Funding is a problem for all fields of
science. In the past decade, the National Science Foundation has seen the
fraction of grant proposals that it can fund drop from 33 percent to 23
percent. But big science has the special problem that it can’t easily be scaled
down. It does no good to build an accelerator tunnel that only goes halfway
around the circle.
Shift Happens – The Chronicle Review
Steven Weinberg: If
you've seen that bumper sticker, you've seen what our culture has made of one
of the central ideas in Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
published 50 years and 1.4 million copies ago.
Deep-Space Photos: Hubble’s Greatest Hits – The
Big Picture
GCHQ releases two Turing papers – ZDNet
Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by
GCHQ – BBC
Alan Turing wartime research papers released by
GCHQ – GCHQ
GCHQ has released two mathematical papers
written by cryptographer Alan Turing after keeping the works secret for over
half a century.
Immortality: For ever and ever – The Economist
Four narratives and an actuary
Annals of Higher Education: Get Rich U. – The
New Yorker
There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be?
PSYCHOLOGY
Learn Anything Faster With The Feynman
Technique – Farnam
Street
The unconscious mind: Hidden depths – The Economist
New thoughts on how the mind works
Philosopher John Searle Defines Consciousness – brain
pickings
‘Consciousness is real and irreducible — you
can’t get rid of it.’
Feast – PBS
Research Digest
Tuck into
our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links, by The British
Psychological Society.