8 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. Southern Farmers Vanquish the Clichés — The New York Times
2. Marginal revolutionaries: The crisis and the blogosphere have opened mainstream economics up to new attack — The 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 World — The 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 Diabetes — The 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).”