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Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. As Myanmar Opens Up, Idyllic Islands Remain UnwelcomingThe New York Times
  2. Microfinance Yields Mixed Results in Thailand, Economist Joseph Kaboski Finds — University of Notre Dame
  3. Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Feel-Good Waste of Money — Virginia Postrel at Bloomberg
  4. What’s in a Name? For Yale in Singapore, a Whole LotThe Chronicle of Higher Education
  5. Bangkok swelters, sparks debate on city planning in Asia — Reuters
  6. The Truth About Debt At Barcelona And Real Madrid — The Swiss Ramble
  7. Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal ArchivesThe Atlantic/In Focus
  8. Data Journalism Handbook — DataJournalismHandbook.org
  9. Turning 60: The Twelve Most Important Lessons I’ve Learned So Far — Tony Schwartz at the Harvard Business Review Blog Network
  10. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: Sergio Aguero’s championship-winning goal for Manchester City, May 13.

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10 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. 2012 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts — The AP
  2. Barcelona’s Secret to Soccer Success — Miostadium.com
  3. How one man escaped from a North Korean prison campThe Guardian
  4. Economic Theory Plots a Course for Good FoodThe New York Times (Via A.)
  5. Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?The Atlantic
  6. “I Survived a Bear Attack” — Slate
  7. The Pipe Organ Desk — kagenschaefer.com
  8. You No Longer Have a Right to Privacy — Big Think
  9. Faculty Gives Yale a Dose of Dissent Over SingaporeThe New York Times
  10. Embedded above and on YouTube here: New Mandala’s “Asia-Pacific future trends.” (Academics from Columbia University and the Australian National University answer the question, “Based on what you know of the Asia-Pacific region, what keeps you up at night?”)

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12 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. Myanmar exiles test government’s promise of change — The AP
  2. Myanmar’s Transformation: A Revolution With No Name?The Wall Street Journal/Southeast Asia Real Time
  3. Investors Hesitate as Frontier Market Myanmar Faces Election — Bloomberg
  4. Memo from Ecuador: ‘Garage Universities’ Are Bracing for School ReformThe New York Times
  5. Sea Clashes Loom Over Southeast Asia SummitThe Wall Street Journal
  6. Angry Words: Will one researcher’s discovery deep in the Amazon destroy the foundation of modern linguistics?The Chronicle Review
  7. Vast Tracts in Paraguay Forest Being Replaced by RanchesThe New York Times
  8. The South: Non-practising versus true SouthernersThe Economist
  9. How Hiring Makes Uniqlo a Successful RetailerThe New Yorker
  10. Stockholm’s Lunch Beat Dance Is Trending — AP video report
  11. “Foggy Mountain Breakdown — Earl Scruggs” — video on YouTube
  12. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Riding the Booster with enhanced sound.” More details are here.

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12 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. The Personal Analytics of My Life — StephenWolfram.com
  2. 24/192 Music Downloads …and why they make no sense — xiph.org
  3. Adventures of a Teenage PolyglotThe New York Times
  4. The People of the Petabyte — Forbes
  5. Southern Food Primer — Southern Foodways Alliance
  6. Why I Love Apple But Don’t Own An iPadThe Wall Street Journal
  7. The AP’s New Apps: The Style, Substance And Strategy — paidContent
  8. The Empty Stomach: Fasting to Beat Jet LagHarpers
  9. Branded journalists battle newsroom regulations — Poynter
  10. Thai Interest Rates, Foreign Reserves Too High, Thaksin Says — Bloomberg
  11. Immigration deflects criticism: Suvarnabhumi arrivals ‘overwhelming’ bureauThe Bangkok Post
  12. Embedded above and on YouTube here: Dolphin Rescue

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10 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success — Jesse Thorn at Transom.org
  2. Ryan Lizza: What I Read — The Atlantic Wire
  3. Debate Over Blog Limits Intensifies in SingaporeThe Wall Street Journal‘s Southeast Asia Real Time
  4. Everybody Inhale: How Many People Can Manhattan Hold?The New York Times
  5. Tricks of the Trade With The Atlantic’s James Fallows — FishbowlDC
  6. Dempsey scores as US beats Italy for first time — The AP
  7. John Paton to news execs: Abandon the gatekeeper model — GigaOM
  8. An apocalyptic view of future Bangkok: Connecting a doom-laden forecast in “The Windup Girl” to present realities — Global Post
  9. Why journalists need to link — Felix Salmon/Reuters
  10. Embedded above and on YouTube: “Lionel Messi never dives” (via Kottke.org)

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7 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. How 1-Minute Intervals Can Improve Your HealthThe New York Times’ Well blog
  2. Thailand Proving Best Bet After China of Global Emerging Market Investors — Bloomberg
  3. If an Earth-like planet was discovered by scientists and NASA built a multi-generational spaceship and were looking for volunteers, would you go? — Reddit
  4. Myanmar Still Balks at International Election MonitorsThe Wall Street Journal
  5. Building Self-Control, the American WayThe New York Times
  6. Must see: ADVENTURES of the EYEs — incredible creations by artist Takanori Aiba
  7. Embedded above and available on YouTube: TEDxHarvardLaw: Stephan Guyenet on the American diet

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5 Links

A few links that have caught my eye of late:

  1. Why French Parents Are SuperiorThe Wall Street Journal
  2. If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? — DDI
  3. IAMA author of a new book about Barack and Michelle Obama’s behind-the-scenes adjustment to the White House. Interview with author Jodi Kantor at reddit.
  4. What did people do: in a Medieval City? — www.svincent.com
  5. Embedded above and available on Vimeo: Beautiful Day at the Dog Park, a video made using a dog-mounted camera.

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8 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. Southern Farmers Vanquish the ClichésThe New York Times
  2. Marginal revolutionaries: The crisis and the blogosphere have opened mainstream economics up to new attackThe Economist
  3. New, darker portrait of legendary American — AP on a new book
    about Jim Thompson by Joshua Kurlantzick
  4. Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost WorldThe New York Times
  5. Do Sports Build Character or Damage It?The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6. Everything you need to know about buying a camera — The Verge
  7. Exercise Hormone May Fight Obesity and DiabetesThe New York Times‘s Well Blog
  8. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “BBC Earthflight — Common Cranes Fly Over Venice (Narrated by David Tennant).”
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7 links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. “Solitude and Leadership”The American Scholar
  2. “The Umbrella Man” — short Errol Morris documentary for The New York Times.
  3. “Thai Leaders Hold Out for Thaksin’s Return”Wall Street Journal.
  4. “A Discipline Problem: Paterno Fought Penn State Official Over Punishment of Players”Wall Street Journal
  5. “Defendant Says Khmer Rouge’s Aim Was to Protect Cambodia From Vietnam”New York Times
  6. “Tracing His Menus Back to Chiang Mai”New York Times.
  7. Embedded above: “RoboKopter Zamieszki I,” on YouTube. From “Drone Journalism Arrives,” at The New York Times‘s Lede Blog.
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  1. Yes, It’s Really Rushdie on TwitterThe Wall Street Journal‘s India Real Time blog
  2. What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?New York Times Magazine
  3. Vladimir Putin, Action ManThe Atlantic‘s In Focus blog
  4. News Trends Tilt Toward Niche SitesNew York Times
  5. Antoine Dodson Saves My ClassThe Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Lingua Franca blog
  6. Rethinking the Exercise ‘Talk Test’The New York Times‘s Well blog
  7. Here Comes Apple’s Real TV — Bloomberg Businessweek
  8. Embedded video above, on YouTube: What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?