Tag: Links

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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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?