Weekend Links

• Can Big Data cure cancer? http://fortune.com/2014/07/24/can-big-data-cure-cancer/ …
• Painkiller Deathstreak Video games and dying - New yorker https://www.readability.com/articles/tn1cghph …
• How MasterCard became a tech company http://fortune.com/2014/07/24/mastercard-tech-company/ …
• War Dogs http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/war-dogs/paterniti-text …
• THE HUNT FOR LIFE BEYOND EARTH http://www.nationalgeographic.com/astrobiology/ 
• Lessons from Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn’s Networker-in-Chief http://fortune.com/2014/07/24/linkedins-networker-in-chief/ …
• Despite the heavy fines, it is still cheaper to take kids out of school for holidays http://econ.st/1mUqH10 
• Why I Want a Wife http://www.cwluherstory.org/why-i-want-a-wife.html …
• On loneliness :Guess I’ll Go Eat Worms https://medium.com/the-archipelago/guess-ill-go-eat-worms-5ba9711905ec …
• Making Craft Brew in Mississippi, the Land That Beer Forgot http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014
• The history of “scientist” http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/the-history-of-scientist/ …
• Professions for Women * http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chapter27.html …
• Argentina Finds Relentless Foe in Paul Singer’s Hedge Fund http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/in-hedge-fund-argentina-finds-relentless-foe/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-share&_r=1& …
• The Future of Iced Coffee http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-future-of-iced-coffee/375114/ …
• Smart and smarter drugs http://mosaicscience.com/story/smart-and-smarter-drugs …
• The Toxic, Abusive, Addictive, Supportive, Codependent Relationship Between Chefs and Yelpers - http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-toxic-abusive-addictive-supportive-codependent-relationship-between-chefs-an?Src=longreads …
• Stephen J. Dubner and WNYC - Why You Should Bribe Your Kids - https://itun.es/i6gP9hB #iTunes
• We Experiment On Human Beings! http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/ …
• Four years on, Jim Chanos back on the Charlie Rose show discussing China (33-minutes on): http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/07/jim-chanos-full-interview-charlie-rose-video/ 
• If a cat could talk http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/can-we-ever-really-know-a-cat/ …