Weekend Links

• Brilliant takedown: Open letter to an idiot nation # longreads http://www.stonekettle.com/2013/07/and-open-letter-to-idiot-nation.html …
• Internship From Hell http://chronicle.com/article/Internship-From-Hell/139951/?src=longreads …
• Why do we bang at night? http://io9.com/why-do-we-have-sex-at-night-592504342 …
• The broker who saved America http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/07/04/the-broker-who-saved-america/ …
• The new science of memes QZ
• How Google Flu Trends Is Getting to the Bottom of Messy Data
• http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/07/how_google_flu_trends_is_getting_to_the_bottom.html …
• One of China’s biggest growth markets: condoms http://flip.it/P7kjf 
• RT @ritholtz: Byron Wien’s 20 Rules of Investing & Life http://flip.it/CB9h1  $$
• The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2011/08/the-7-habits-of-highly-ineffective-people/ …
• Google Ventures Stresses Science of Deal, Not Art of the Deal NYT
• The Collapse of Science, Not Housing, Ended the American Dream http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-douglas-fields/the-collapse-of-science-n_b_3416953.html …
• Demographers Discover The Fundamental Law Governing the Growth of Cities TR