Weekend Links

Book Review: 'David and Goliath' by Malcolm Gladwell http://bit.ly/17bHvNb 
A step-by-step guide to profiting off a 3-cent hike on US postage stamps http://qz.com/128329  via @qz
Why tough teachers get good results http://bit.ly/19cF21z 
Seinfeld : Omni Reboot | The Parking Garage http://bit.ly/19czXXb 
How I failed - O'Reilly Radar http://bit.ly/17buMKk 
Avoid These Bad Study Habits to Actually Retain Information in School — http://lifehacker.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/17bnFBQ 
Social media and the role it plays in teenage lives today http://rdd.me/jck1vqoc  via @readability #longreads
"Why you shouldn't kiss a pig and other wisdom from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist" http://rdd.me/9zw8us9m  via @readability
"Our French Connection" http://rdd.me/gqkabo67  via @readability #longreads
National Geographic 125th Anniversary [PHOTOS] - Business Insider http://bit.ly/1h6SQ2C 
Some fiction: Blue Carbuncle | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle http://bit.ly/15xS92v 
The True Story Of The Great Marijuana Crash Of 2011 — http://www.businessinsider.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/15wsyad 
Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career - Walter Frick - http://bit.ly/1h18dK1 
'Dexter' Series Finale Was Disappointing - Business Insider http://bit.ly/15tpM5D 
Ten email commandments http://bit.ly/1h0uiIL 
The American Scholar: Is There a Word for That? - Ralph Keyes http://bit.ly/15n9b3b 
How A Relationship Brought Me Halfway Around The World And Back Again http://bit.ly/15n0PZB 
"Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption" http://rdd.me/nw1ekmyx  via @readability
When Patents Attack... Part Two! | This American Life http://bit.ly/15iPw4D 

FW: Give it back![infographic]

When bosses face pressure to return their lucre upon leaving AFT

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FW: Changes in the American Family, 1970-2012

Source: Quartz

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Carbon Intensity of Countries[Graphics]

Reuters

 

Weekend Links

A story about tuna hunting: "John Seabrook | Stories | Death of a Giant" http://rdd.me/caukjctw  via @readability #longreads #longform

An interview with the Pope: "A Big Heart Open to God" http://rdd.me/0ytgyry8  via @readability #longreads #longform

3 Stories on babysitting: Putting All the World's Water into a Big Cube http://bit.ly/18ccdWS 

"Familiarity Breeds Content" http://rdd.me/ottawcpq  via @readability

The fraud detective — http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/19fwBn5  #longreads #Jimchanos

Jim Chanos "The fraud detective" http://rdd.me/e9no1o36  via @readability #longform #Longreads

"Sexting, Shame and Suicide | Culture News" http://rdd.me/yxgppgds  via @readability

The Price of Precious — http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/18uDL5R 

AUGUST 2013: THE MONTH IN FINANCIAL CHARTS | Alpha Now | Thomson Reuters http://bit.ly/18oYury 

How Goldman Sachs Made Money Mid-Crisis http://rdd.me/ypi1i1en  via @readability

The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldman Sachs—and That Should Worry You http://rdd.me/pbl1rxoh 

The 20 Smartest Things Jeff Bezos Has Ever Said http://rdd.me/qbv67to4  via @readability

Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption http://rdd.me/nw1ekmyx  via @readability

Death by Tylenol: Use Only as Directed - ProPublica http://buff.ly/18ggOXS

FW: Two Weeks in September

 

 

Click for interactive graphic Source: Asset International's Chief Investment Officer

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FW: World Bank robbers

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FW: The True Size of Africa

 

 

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Weekend Longform Links

• A Hundred Bucks Says You Won't Read This Story — http://www.esquire.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/17yvnFm  #longform #longreads
• Hi, It’s Your Doctor — http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/15ZRQhm 
• Have Sports Teams Brought Down America’s Schools? — http://www.newyorker.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/1ec3GaH
• Why Everyone F*cking Loves Science — and Elise Andrew http://bit.ly/1eaR2bX 
• "Hank Paulson: This Is What It Was Like to Face the Financial Crisis" http://rdd.me/sbwgbidq  via @readability
• Where Is Dick Fuld Now? Finding Lehman Brothers' Last CEO - Businessweek http://bit.ly/13SyMhv 
• Dropbox CEO Drew Houston's 2013 MIT commencement address transcript — http://www.networkworld.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/17tMMz2 
• Why Solo Travel Is The Way To Go — http://www.forbes.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/17txCd9 
• David Foster Wallace died five years ago today. Harpers
• The Cover Letter: A Short History of Every Job-Seeker's Greatest Annoyance - Stephen Lurie - The Atlantic http://bit.ly/17rGEHy 
• An indepth accounton the new delhi rape case: http://bit.ly/15Wni9t 
• Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world | Center for Public Integrity http://bit.ly/13LUmnU 
• Meet the overwhelmed psychiatrist in the world’s happiest country — www.thestar.com — Readability http://buff.ly/160qesG
• The Tech Intellectuals — www.democracyjournal.org — Readability http://buff.ly/18fW7HF

FW: History of the Financial Crisis: Mid-2007 to 2010

 

Click for ginormous graphic Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury

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Child Exchange

via : Reuters

Weekend longform Links

• In Plain View — http://gladwell.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/17ewv0P 
• All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go — http://www.thebaffler.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/156wc8J 
• SumZero Pioneers Buy-Side Research — http://www.alleywatch.com  — Readability http://bit.ly/1adKe95 
• Shameless Samsung | stratēchery by Ben Thompson http://bit.ly/1dO93wx 
• Memo To The BuzzFeed Team | LinkedIn http://bit.ly/1dO8xOS 
• To a Chinese Scrap-Metal Hunter, America's Trash Is Treasure - Businessweek http://bit.ly/14yr7Ch 
• Schools around the world - The Big Picture http://bit.ly/17Wb33n 
• Hyderabad in Five Colors — http://www.nybooks.com  — Readability http://www.readability.com/articles/zburoeyk …
• Can a recovered drug addict be a good parent? – Peter Stenson – Aeon http://bit.ly/14oyVMk 
• Bashar al-Assad: «All contracts signed with Russia are implemented» - Известия http://bit.ly/14s3c7q 
• "Man and Superman" http://rdd.me/v2jgs42o  via @readability
• 9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask http://rdd.me/pwmcyhrf  via @readability
• Ten Legitimately Fascinating Facts About the Shipping Industry - Eric Levenson - The Atlantic Wire http://bit.ly/1dFx7CE 
• Inside News Corp's $540 Million Bet on American Classrooms — mashable.com — Readability http://buff.ly/14s3gJM

Francis Chou : Investment Mgmt.

FW: Real Minimum Wages Around the World

 

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Long Weekend Links

"“No, Private, but I worry a helluva lot about the bullets with ‘To Whom It May Concern’ written on ’em.”" http://bit.ly/18i1CHw 
Welcome to the Age of Denial http://bit.ly/14iFWIY 
Loneliness Is Deadly http://rdd.me/3c84bfsq  via @readability
Lunch with the FT: Shin Dong-hyuk - http://FT.com  http://rdd.me/zqazyo2b  The Brazilian Billionaire Who Controls Your Beer, Your Condiments, and Your Whopper http://rdd.me/frdhr8oy  via @readability
Don’t Wash Your Chicken! It Only Makes Things Worse. http://rdd.me/dkv0rym6  via @readability
Cultural revolution http://rdd.me/5xwixy16  via @readability
Lululemon: In an uncomfortable position http://rdd.me/oxplqptn  via @readability
How to use a semicolon - The Oatmeal http://bit.ly/149zPfA 
Death by PowerPoint http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/08/death-by-powerpoint-2/ … via @ritholtz
"Michael Mauboussin, Interview No. 4" http://rdd.me/n2bveyrl  via @readability
The all-purpose election victory speech — http://www.themonthly.com.au  — Readability http://bit.ly/18aGiUj 
Chemical war in Syria — http://www.lemonde.fr  — Readability http://bit.ly/18aANoR 
The Weirdest Things About America - Business Insider http://bit.ly/14dR1ew 
Hospitalis: Inside the hospital-themed restaurant where 'patients' pay to wear straitjackets | Mail Online http://bit.ly/143dYGv 
‘Like Being in Prison with a Salary’: The Secret World of the Shipping Industry — http://blog.longreads.com  http://bit.ly/14bKvVu 
The First Rule of Having In-Flight Internet According to The Oatmeal http://bit.ly/1dTP6Tv