Assorted Links
1. ADHD linked to creative genius
2. Our world may be a giant hologram
3. Powerful shots of Haiti three weeks after the disaster
1. ADHD linked to creative genius
2. Our world may be a giant hologram
3. Powerful shots of Haiti three weeks after the disaster
1. Felix Salmon on the NYT’s paywall
2. Interview with Eugene Fama - how does he believe what he says is a mystery to me.
3. Sergey Brin on witnessing the devastation in Haiti
1. What the LHC is really looking for (I can’t stop linking to LHC)
2. A few insights about fast news junkies
4. Reuters.com has a new design. I like it.
5. A Collection of George Soros lectures in Central European University
1. Deep Thinkers - the more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be
2. Overoptimism
5. Efficient Market Theory and the Crisis
6. How an American soldier is made (in pictures)
1. The Man Who Found Quarks and Made Sense of the Universe
2. Why capitalism fails - yet another look
3. The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them. Drool on!
4. Here is how to free yourself from Google. It is by Google. They have too much of your data but also provide a way out. Evil or not? I get confused. You make the call.
5. Nine Workspaces Where Famous Folks Get Stuff Done
6. They called him “Mr. Bubble.” And it is a bubbly world…
1. Why book cover designs get killed
3. Game theory answers to political science problems
4. A few extra dimensions. If you don’t care for physics, check it for the pictures.
1. The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals or how I learned to stop worrying and love “industrial farming”
2. A Tale of Two Provinces - by far the best piece on China that I have encountered in the last few months
4. Bloggers of the world, Reuters got our back
1. It is cats and not mice (as the hitchhiker story would have us believe) that have been manipulating humanity all along
2. A list of ten overhyped books that are just not worth it
3. The Man Who Crashed the World
4. The Messenger lectures of Richard Faynman
1. Yet another ode to the NYT or how the leadership of old media fails
2. The Fine Art Of Quitting. Hmmm, sounds familiar
3. Altruism repays the best-connected individuals
4. The Top 10 most absurd Time covers of the past 40 years
5. Apollo … the dream that fell to Earth
2. The Master of money or what makes Warren Buffet tick
3. Popularity ≠ Importance on the web (who would have guessed)
4. The flying spaghetti monster is in control