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Twitter feeds you need: top tweeters reveal
their three favourite follows – The
Guardian
In just six years, Twitter has become the
life-support system for those seeking news, humour, wisdom or a shot of
esoteric web weirdness. Here, introduced by Lauren Laverne, 50 top tweeters
reveal their three favourite follows. Plus, five experts on the Twitter
accounts that define their fields
INTERNATIONAL
Blueseed, the Floating City for Startups - Popsci
Tax-free, “anything
goes” floating community – with an entrance fee.
How the Soviets Squashed Dissidents – Foreign
Affairs
For the Soviets, accepting that malcontents
could be found in their communist paradise undermined their worldview, so
sending them abroad was a way of putting them out of mind. China’s approach to
dissidents today comes more from defensiveness about its status as world leader.
Traveling with U.S. troops gives insights
into the recent massacre
PEOPLE
The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes – Fast
Company
A treasure trove of unearthed interviews,
conducted by the writer who knew him best, reveals how Jobs's ultimate success
at Apple can be traced directly to his so-called wilderness years.
How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon (2009) – Slate
The perverse allure of a damaged woman.
Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle – NYT
Joe
Weisenthal wakes up around 4 a.m. most weekdays, afraid that in the
five or six hours he has been sleeping, something happened that could move
financial markets.
Ken Doyle, Safecracker – McSweeney’s
CRIME
Roberto Calvi – Wikipedia
He was also
known as “the God’s banker”. He got killed.
The 6 Ballsiest Casino Cheats of All Time – cracked.com
Kidnapped by Pirates at Sea? Here's How
Economics Can Save You – The
Atlantic
Lessons from Plutarch to Planet Money,
including the First Rule of kidnapping insurance: Don't tell anybody about your
kidnapping insurance
Invisible Hand, Greased Palm – The
New Yorker
When you read the business pages these days,
you can be forgiven for thinking that international commerce is a cesspool of
graft. Yet, by historical standards, things have never been cleaner. What’s
changed is how strenuously governments are cracking down on corruption.
Lehman E-Mails Show Wall Street Arrogance Led
to the Fall – View
/ BB
If one wants to understand the full complicity of Wall Street in the Great Recession, look no further than the voluminous package of pre-collapse Lehman Brothers documents that have been made available by the law firm Jenner & Block LLP, which has acted as the coroner in the Lehman post-mortem.
If one wants to understand the full complicity of Wall Street in the Great Recession, look no further than the voluminous package of pre-collapse Lehman Brothers documents that have been made available by the law firm Jenner & Block LLP, which has acted as the coroner in the Lehman post-mortem.
PSYCHOLOGY
You agree with this column – New
Statesman
Why your brain avoids information it doesn't
agree with.
Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments of Teaching – Farnam
Street
The brain… it makes you think. Doesn't it? – The
Guardian
Are we governed by unconscious processes?
Neuroscience believes so – but isn't the human condition more complicated than
that? Two experts offer different views
Internal Time – brain
pickings
The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and
Why You’re So Tired: Debunking the social stigma around late risers, or what
Einstein has to do with teens’ risk for smoking.
How To Spot A Liar – Farnam Street
10 Ways to Motivate Anyone – TIME
ECONOMICS
FiveBooks Interviews: Simon Johnson on Why
Economic History Matters – The
Browser
History contains all sorts of useful warnings
and lessons. And, says the former IMF chief economist, today's economic
policymakers would do well to heed them
Rules of trading in a POW camp – Tim
Harford
An economist who was taken prisoner during the
second world war observed that market institutions were universal and
spontaneous
‘Understood properly, the Death Star is not
worth it.’ – Wonkblog
/ WP
Should we build a Death Star? This debate
picked up this year after some Lehigh University students estimated that just
the steel for a Death Star would cost $852 quadrillion, or 13,000 times the
current GDP of the Earth.
SCIENCE, TECH, NET
I Ditched Google for a Week – Slate
Is it possible to survive on the Internet using
Bing and only Bing?
New York Times’ graphics department blog – chartsnthings
or how beautiful
charts are conceived
Moore's Law Over, Supercomputing "In
Triage," Says Expert – technology
review
A dean of high performance computing says
silicon is at the end of the line.
Take top thinkers from Silicon Valley and science, mix them
with scientists, innovators and philanthro-capitalists, and you've got the Singularity University – on a mission to
seek technological solutions to the world's great challenges
The Single Theory That Could Explain Emergence,
Organisation And The Origin of Life – technology
review
Biochemists have long imagined that
autocatalytic sets can explain the origin of life. Now a new mathematical
approach to these sets has even broader implications
What Really Sparked the Hindenburg Disaster? – Smithsonian
Biomedicine: Breaking the Genome Bottleneck – technology
review
It can be quicker and easier to sequence a
genome than to analyze the resulting data—now one startup thinks it has a
solution to this data-crunching bottleneck
The frequent fliers who flew too much – Los
Angeles Times
Many years after selling lifetime passes for
unlimited first-class travel, American Airlines began scrutinizing the costs —
and the customers.
Flying the 787 'Dreamliner': What It's Like to
Ride Boeing's Newest Airplane – readwriteweb
Learn how
to drive – in style!