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BUSINESS
Youngest American Woman Billionaire Found With
In-N-Out – BB
Coke Engineers Its Orange Juice—With an Algorithm – Businessweek
Before There Was Facebook: The Seeds Of Silicon Valley – co.create
PBS
documentary American Experience: Silicon
Valley captures the origin of the Northern California technology hub through the eyes of
its first startup, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the advent of the microchip and
the modern-day entrepreneurial culture.
PSYCHOLOGY
The (Really) Invisible Gorilla – Farnam
Street
Even
doctors looking at x-ray pictures miss the gorilla
John Cleese: How to Stamp Out Creativity – The
Reformed Broker
Study Seeks Biomarkers for Invisible War Scars – NYT
Over the
past decade, about half a million veterans have received diagnoses of
post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury. Thousands have
received both. Yet underlying the growing numbers lies a disconcerting
question: How many of those diagnoses are definitive? And how many more have
been missed?
Baba Shiv: How to Make Better Decisions – Farnam
Street
Baba Shiv
demystifies the brain chemistry that controls our decision making, and explains
how you can regulate it to make better decisions. He also answers the question,
“Is it better to make decisions in the morning or the afternoon?”
A Dose of Narcissism Can Be Useful – SciAm
The sharp
sword of narcissism can cut both ways
One Persuasion
Technique Everyone Should Know – Farnam
Street
The answer
is: the ‘But You Are Free’ technique. This simple approach is all about
reaffirming people’s freedom to choose. When you ask someone to do something,
you add on the sentiment that they are free to choose.
Soft Skills for
Finance: Tools for Decoding Your Personality and Work Style – CFA
Institute
How To Stay Sane: The Art of Revising Your
Inner Storytelling –
brain
pickings
“Our stories give shape to our inchoate,
disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life.”
MEDIA
The Stars of The Walking Dead as You've
(Probably) Never Seen Them – mental
floss
'Walking Dead' actor
joins 'Mythbusters' zombie episode – Inside TV
The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New
Show – The
Atlantic Wire
The show
costs Netflix about $50 million a season to produce. Netflix intends to have
five new shows of a similar scale every year. Yet most of its revenue comes
from people paying $7.99 a month for a streaming subscription. It doesn’t use
ads to top up that revenue. If Netflix wants to recoup the costs of producing
the shows then the shows need to attract 2.6 million new individuals who
subscribe for two years. Yet for Netflix this would be an increase of less than
10%. Last year Netflix increased its US membership by about 13%.
When Newspapers Were New, or, How Londoners Got
Word of the Plague –
The
Atlantic
Daniel
Defoe's novel about London's 1665 plague can help us
understand new media. No, really.
3 Big Ideas to Steal From Netflix – TIME
MILSECINT
A total of
54 countries took part in secret CIA detention and extraordinary rendition of
terrorist suspects after the September 11 attacks, according to a report by the
Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). Some countries are said to have let CIA planes use their airspace or
refuel, others, including Poland and Lithuania, hosted so called “black sites”
where terrorist suspects were transported, interrogated and tortured.
The Worldview of Lee Kuan Yew – The Diplomat
Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew has been called the
“Kissinger of the orient.” As he turns 90 this year, he presents an interesting
perspective on geopolitics.
FiveBooks Interviews: Andy McNab on The
Politics of War – The
Browser
SOCIETY
A post-democratic society – europp
/ LSE
A
post-democratic society is one that continues to have and to use all the
institutions of democracy, but in which they increasingly become a formal shell
Complacency in a Leaderless World – Project
Syndicate
Joseph E.
Stiglitz: In the last 25 years, we have moved from a world dominated by two
superpowers to one dominated by one, and now to a leaderless, multi-polar
world. While we may talk about the G-7, or G-8, or G-20, the more apt
description is G-0. We will have to learn how to live, and thrive, in this new
world.
What’s the cost and financial value of college? – MIT
At MIT,
experts say evidence shows the payoff from college education remains high.
The president, after all, is in charge of naming U.S.
ambassadors all over the world. And historically, about 55 of those spots have
gone to “political” appointees — wealthy donors or top fund-raisers. These are
usually gigs in nice, stable countries like France or Italy.
OTHER
18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained In
Plain English – BI
Limiting
the available vocabulary forces one to simplify
7 Iconic Skylines That Almost Looked Ridiculous – cracked
The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards – The
Atlantic
Reincarnation in
Exile – Believer
The challenges of growing up in the modern world as
the reincarnation of a famous Tibetan lama.
The cold hard facts
of freezing to death – Outside
As freezing persons recollect the snow: first chill, then
stupor, then the Letting Go
Raging (Again) Against the Robots – NYT
And Now Let Us Praise, and Consider the Absurd
Luck of, Famous Men
– The
Atlantic
Leaving the magic intact – The
Reformed Broker
For a Global Life, Bloomberg Builds His Own British Empire – NYT
What Are Dogs Saying When They Bark? – SciAm
IN FINNISH
Ristamäki: Liukas
Vanhanen – IL
Piru vieköön, Jyrki
Katainen – Esko
Seppänen / US Puheenvuoro
Tämä kirjoitus on tehty sinun ylioptimististen lausuntojesi
perusteella ja takia. Minä toimin 13 vuotta europarlamentin budjettivaliokunnassa
ja seurasin tarkasti kahdet aikaisemmat EU:n budjettikehysneuvottelut. Niiden
kokemusten perusteella en luota hitusenkaan vertaa sinun arvioosi Suomen osasta
eilisessä ”sovussa”.
Islanti ja talletussuoja – Hannu
Visti
Äärioikeisto etenee kuin ilmastonmuutos – Olli Herrala / KL
Suomen EU-laskuun
tulee miljoonien korotus – HS
Pääministeri hehkutti Suomen "taittaneen
EU-nettomaksuosuutensa kasvun". Silti Suomi maksaa jopa 200 miljoonaa
euroa enemmän kuin ennen.
Eurojuhlien aika ei
ole vielä – Risto
Pennanen / TalSa
Veronmaksajat ovat pelastaneet eurosijoittajat pahimmalta.
Nyt pelastetut vaativat veronmaksajille kuria.