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11 Links

  1. My Gucci AddictionGQ
  2. Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?The New York Times Magazine
  3. Economists See No Crisis With U.S. Debt as Economy Gains — Bloomberg
  4. You’re Distracted. This Professor Can Help.The Chronicle of Higher Education
  5. Eight Reasons Business Travelers Shouldn’t Work on PlanesBloombergBusinessweek
  6. An Amazon Problem: The Book Is Dead, Long Live the Book — Spiegel Online
  7. The Lost Tribes of the AmazonSmithsonian
  8. Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects — Gigaom
  9. Castle, Sweet CastleThe Wall Street Journal
  10. Robbie Rogers: why coming out as gay meant I had to leave footballThe Guardian
  11. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles.”

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12 links

  1. The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of TroubleThe New York Times Magazine
  2. Noma’s Co-Owner Thinks Bolivian Food Is the Next Big Thing — Bloomberg Markets
  3. In Public Eye, Shining Star of Myanmar Loses LusterThe New York Times
  4. A Friendly Conversation with a Banker — The Billfold
  5. The problem with online freelance journalism — Felix Salmon/Reuters
  6. Revenge of the sources — Ezra Klein/The Washington Post
  7. What Saved the Dow? Sensible Economic PoliciesJohn Cassidy/The New Yorker
  8. Thailand’s illegal immigrants: A deadly cocktailThe Economist
  9. Pad Thai — The Morning News
  10. Missing Nutella, Part 2: Columbia Puts Consumption Far Below ReportThe New York Times‘s City Room blog
  11. China’s ‘farmscrapers’ are highrises that will generate their own food — io9
  12. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Space Glider – FPV to Space and Back!”

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15 links

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  1. The Brain Is Not ComputableMIT Technology Review
  2. Can a President Use Drones Against Journalists?The New Yorker
  3. Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing UsTIME
  4. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk FoodThe New York Times Magazine
  5. Fuling, China: Return to River TownNational Geographic
  6. Pad Thai — The Morning News
  7. With campaign, Mark Sanford goes from Appalachian Trail to comeback trailThe 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 accommodationBangkok 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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13 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. Japan’s Role in Making Batteries for BoeingThe New York Times
  2. Why I Might Ditch My IPhone for an Android — BloombergBusinessweek
  3. Thailand to Avoid Currency War as Ghost of 1997 Crisis Looms — Bloomberg
  4. A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters — Asia Obscura (Via @wharman)
  5. A very different kind of TV dinner — CNNMoney/Fortune
  6. Two Decades On, Vusi Mahlasela Still Sings ‘To The People’ — NPR
  7. Glutton Abroad: Bangkok in NY — Bangkok Glutton
  8. Who ‘Owns’ Street Food?The Wall Street Journal/Scene Asia
  9. Bones of Contention: A Florida man’s curious trade in Mongolian dinosaursThe New Yorker
  10. With Tax Advantages Looking Shaky, Private Equity Seeks a New PathThe New York Times/DealBook
  11. C.W. Anderson: How journalists’ self-concepts hindered their adaptation to a digital world — Nieman Journalism Lab
  12. Will Gutenberg laugh last? — Rough Type
  13. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Animaniacs – Yakko’s World.”

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10 Links

  1. “Monks Lose Relevance as Thailand Grows Richer”The New York Times
  2. An Economics Masterpiece You Should Be Reading Now — Bloomberg
  3. The Basement — cabel.me
  4. Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption — Forbes
  5. In a New Era of Insider Trading, It’s Risk vs. Reward SquaredThe New York Times
  6. The Best 10 Economics Papers of 2012 — UDADISI
  7. The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed — Bloomberg
  8. Timeline of the far future — Wikipedia
  9. 2012’s Most Popular Locations on Instagram — Instagram blog (Thailand watchers will be interested to note the first two spots)
  10. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Holland vs the Netherlands.”

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14 Links

  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 LikeThe 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 TimeRolling 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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10 Links

  1. You Too Can Be Nate Silver — Bloomberg Businessweek
  2. One Running Shoe in the Grave: New Studies on Older Endurance Athletes Suggest the Fittest Reap Few Health Benefits — The Wall Street Journal
  3. The Bookstore Strikes Back — Ann Patchett, in The Atlantic, on Parnassus Books
  4. 100 Notable Books of 2012The New York Times
  5. Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present — Tow Center for Digital Journalism
  6. Hot Gift Is a Tablet, but Which to Buy?The New York Times
  7. Stories From EDGAR: Mining SEC Filings for a Scoop — CoveringBusiness
  8. Myanmar: Gold Mine or Sink Hole?The Wall Street Journal
  9. 36 Hours in Kolkata, IndiaThe New York Times
  10. Video embedded above and on Youtube here: “Why is it Dark at Night?”

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8 Links

2012 11 09 biz week obama

  1. Obama to Visit Myanmar as Part of First Postelection Overseas Trip to AsiaNew York Times
  2. Laos Dam Kicks Off Controversial Mekong PlansWall 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 CuisineNew 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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10 Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. The Worst Marriage in GeorgetownThe New York Times Magazine
  2. Clinton Visit Puts Spotlight on South China SeaThe Wall Street Journal
  3. Asean Reaps Rewards As Clinton Counters China — Bloomberg
  4. Wary Neighbors Turn Into Partners in a Quickly Developing Southeast AsiaThe 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 BangkokThe New York Times
  8. We’re getting wildly differing assessments — SCOTUSblog
  9. The Kingpins: The fight for GuadalajaraThe New Yorker
  10. Video embedded above and on Vimeo here: “The Higgs Boson Explained” (Via A).

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14 Links

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 FarmThe New York Times
  3. India’s Historic Outreach to MyanmarThe Atlantic/Asia Society
  4. Michio Kaku: The Cheapest Way to Terraform Mars — The Big Think/YouTube
  5. Moderation as the Sweet Spot for ExerciseThe New York Times/Well blog
  6. Thai Parliament Puts Off Two Sensitive DebatesThe Wall Street Journal
  7. Why We Don’t Believe in ScienceThe New Yorker
  8. South Carolina’s Pension Push Into High-Octane InvestmentsThe 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 PixarEmma Coats/io9
  11. Expatriates Find an Affordable Welcome in EcuadorThe 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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