Category: Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. How 1-Minute Intervals Can Improve Your Health — The 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 Monitors — The Wall Street Journal
5. Building Self-Control, the American Way — The 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

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

A few links that have caught my eye of late:

1. Why French Parents Are Superior — The 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.

(Previous link round-ups can be found by clicking the links tag.)

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).”

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.

1. Yes, It’s Really Rushdie on Twitter — The 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 Man — The Atlantic‘s In Focus blog
4. News Trends Tilt Toward Niche Sites — New York Times
5. Antoine Dodson Saves My Class — The 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?

1. The eye of the Buddha: How Myanmar is moving ever closer into China’s orbit — The Economist‘s review of Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia, by Thant Myint-U.
2. Interview: Robert Gottlieb, The Art of Editing No. 1 — The Paris Review, Fall 1994
3. Scientists Crack The Physics Of Coffee Rings — NPR
4. For Asian Soccer Stars, Swan Songs Back Home Hold Little Appeal — AP
5. Overdone: Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad? — Slate
6. The Carbohydrate Hypothesis of Obesity: a Critical Examination — Stephan Guyenet at Whole Health Source
7. The Lost Century: The ideas that sent Latin America down the path of poverty and political instability — Wall Street Journal review of Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America, by Enrique Krauze.
8. Image above: From Andy Ricker takes Next’s tour of Thailand: A night at Grant Achatz’s restaurant with America’s preeminent Thai chef — Time Out Chicago.

1. Inside North Korea — Remarkable photos from the AP at The Atlantic‘s In Focus blog.
2. How to Beat the High Costs of Dialing Abroad — New York Times
3. Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad — The New Yorker.
4. Advanced Style blog: “Proof from the wise and silver haired set that personal style advances with age” — advancedstyle.blogspot.com
5. The Philadelphian Dialect is Punk Rock — Val Systems
6. The new structure of stories: a reading list — Jonathan Stray
7. Shop Class or French? A Tale of Two Paths — The Chronicle of Higher Education
8. Ten Things I Have Learned, by Milton Glaser — www.miltonglaser.com
9. Video embedded above, via YouTube: “Behind The Sounds: Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” by the Beach Boys (Via Open Culture).

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. The Foxification of news: In the internet age, transparency may count for more than objectivity — The Economist
2. ‘Page One’ Excerpt: How The New York Times learned to stop worrying and love the blog — Poynter.org
3. Byliner: “Discover & discuss great reads by great writers.” — Byliner.com
4. What’s Scrabble When You Can Play Novelist? — New York Times
5. The mother of all tail risks: A US technical default would convulse markets. Nothing else is certain — The Economist
6. Survival Thai: “Learn Thai the easy way with signs in the street” — www.survivalthai.com
7. 5 Voyeuristic, Cross-Disciplinary Peeks Inside Great Creators’ Notebooks — brain pickings
8. Healthfully ever after, or why marriage is good for you — PBS.org
9. separated by a common language: “Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK” — separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
10. For the Executive With Everything, a $230,000 Dog to Protect It — New York Times
11. Image above: from the French National Library’s Visions de l’an 2000, prints from 1910 of what the world might look like in the year 2000. This image: how learning might work in the future. (Via James Fallows).

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. Q+A-How will Thailand’s election affect listed companies? — Reuters
2. After 40 Years, the Complete Pentagon Papers — New York Times
3. North Korea defectors take to the “Underground Railroad” — GlobalPost
4. Suvarnabhumi Airport Time Lapse — Thailand.TV
5. Geeks at the Beach: 9 intriguing summer reads (and a video) about technology’s turning society upside down — Chronicle of Higher Education
6. Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship — Nieman Journalism Lab
7. Regrets of the Dying — Inspiration and Chai
8. ExoVault — remarkable iPhone cases
9. Video above, on YouTube: Tyler Cowen on “The Great Stagnation”

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism — The Atlantic
2. El Bulli Is the Greatest Restaurant in the World — New York Times
3. Is it possible to pirate-proof a yacht? — BBC News
4. A Year at War: The Chaos of War, Up Close — New York Times
5. Action figures of “four global revolutionaries” — couvertureandthegarbstore.com
6. The Catalan kings: The management secrets of Barcelona Football Club — The Economist
7. Cut This Story! Newspaper articles are too long — The Atlantic
8. Area 51 ‘Uncensored’: Was It UFOs Or The USSR? — NPR
9. Video embedded above: “Hey You! What Song are you Listening to?” on YouTube