Category: Links

1. The Brain Is Not Computable — MIT Technology Review
2. Can a President Use Drones Against Journalists? — The New Yorker
3. Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us — TIME
4. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food — The New York Times Magazine
5. Fuling, China: Return to River Town — National Geographic
6. Pad Thai — The Morning News
7. With campaign, Mark Sanford goes from Appalachian Trail to comeback trail — The Washington Post
8. Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet ‘There’s Only One Rooster’ — Bloomberg Businessweek
9. Cost of Dropping Citizenship Keeps U.S. Earners From Exit — Bloomberg
10. Thailand’s stalemate and uneasy accommodation — Bangkok Post
11. Soccer’s New Match-Fixing Scandal: How #*%!ed is the beautiful game? — Grantland
12. What Are Dogs Saying When They Bark? — Scientific American
13. Myanmar’s SEA Games: Let’s play chinlone! — The Economist
14. Will Bernard Lagat Live Forever? — The New Yorker
15. Image above: From The Silent City: Digitally Assembled Futuristic Megalopolises by Yang Yongliang. Via the Galerie Paris-Beijing site (see here, here, and here).

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1. It’s official: Austerity Economics Doesn’t Work — John Cassidy in the The New Yorker
2. The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like — The Atlantic
3. Dear Journalists at Vice and Elsewhere, Here Are Some Simple Ways Not To Get Your Source Arrested — Forbes
4. The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time — Rolling Stone
5. How do you pack your bag for a seven-year, 22,000-mile international reporting assignment? — Nieman Journalism Lab
6. The enduring Apple TV Fantasy — Monday Note
7. Gertler Earns Billions as Mine Deals Fail to Enrich Congo — Bloomberg Markets Magazine
8. The impossibility of tablet-native journalism — Felix Salmon
9. Google’s Lost Social Network — BuzzFeed FWD
10. Thai Tycoons Top Dealmakers With Record Spending — Bloomberg
11. David Chase Doesn’t Care About the Russian — Slate
12. Syria Deeply — An “independent digital media project led by journalists and technologists, exploring a new model of storytelling around a global crisis.”
13. Retronaut — “The past is a foreign country. This is your passport.” (Via @fergle.)
14. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Call Me Maybe – Harvard Economics Department.”

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1. Obama to Visit Myanmar as Part of First Postelection Overseas Trip to Asia — New York Times
2. Laos Dam Kicks Off Controversial Mekong Plans — Wall Street Journal
3. Pardoned Thai-American speaks to the press on lese majeste — Bangkok Pundit
4. Thai-American ‘wins election’ — Bangkok Post on Tammy Duckworth
5. International reporting in the age of participatory media (PDF) — Ethan Zuckerman, Dædalus, Spring 2010
6. High Ambition and Visions of Andean Haute Cuisine — New York Times
7. On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor — McSweeneys.net
8. Image above: Bloomberg Businessweek Nov. 12-18 cover. Special report: “The Next Four Years.”

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Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. The Worst Marriage in Georgetown — The New York Times Magazine
2. Clinton Visit Puts Spotlight on South China Sea — The Wall Street Journal
3. Asean Reaps Rewards As Clinton Counters China — Bloomberg
4. Wary Neighbors Turn Into Partners in a Quickly Developing Southeast Asia — The New York Times
5. Transfer of Value — Monday Note
6. Englands of the Mind: The sound. The fury. The mediocrity. — Grantland
7. A Bit of Rural Thailand Amid Bustling Bangkok — The New York Times
8. We’re getting wildly differing assessments — SCOTUSblog
9. The Kingpins: The fight for Guadalajara — The New Yorker
10. Video embedded above and on Vimeo here: “The Higgs Boson Explained” (Via A).

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Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. Special Report: Plight of Muslim minority threatens Myanmar Spring — Reuters
2. Thai Youth Seek a Fortune Away From the Farm — The New York Times
3. India’s Historic Outreach to Myanmar — The Atlantic/Asia Society
4. Michio Kaku: The Cheapest Way to Terraform Mars — The Big Think/YouTube
5. Moderation as the Sweet Spot for Exercise — The New York Times/Well blog
6. Thai Parliament Puts Off Two Sensitive Debates — The Wall Street Journal
7. Why We Don’t Believe in Science — The New Yorker
8. South Carolina’s Pension Push Into High-Octane Investments — The New York Times
9. Robert Carlock walks us through highlights from 30 Rock’s six seasons so far — The A.V. Club
10. The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar — Emma Coats/io9
11. Expatriates Find an Affordable Welcome in Ecuador — The New York Times
12. 14 Must-Know Tips & Tricks for Mac OS X — OSXDaily
13. Part of this world, part of another — Letters of Note: Gene Wilder on his “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” entrance.
14. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Un enfant de 5 ans remplaçant au foot.”

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Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. As Myanmar Opens Up, Idyllic Islands Remain Unwelcoming — The 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 Lot — The 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 Archives — The 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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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 camp — The Guardian
4. Economic Theory Plots a Course for Good Food — The 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 Singapore — The 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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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 Reform — The New York Times
5. Sea Clashes Loom Over Southeast Asia Summit — The 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 Ranches — The New York Times
8. The South: Non-practising versus true Southerners — The Economist
9. How Hiring Makes Uniqlo a Successful Retailer — The 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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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 Polyglot — The 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 iPad — The Wall Street Journal
7. The AP’s New Apps: The Style, Substance And Strategy — paidContent
8. The Empty Stomach: Fasting to Beat Jet Lag — Harpers
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’ bureau — The Bangkok Post
12. Embedded above and on YouTube here: Dolphin Rescue

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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 Singapore — The 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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