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Sunday, February 10

10th Feb - Weekender: Off-Topic & Finnish




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OFF-TOPIC
  BUSINESS
Youngest American Woman Billionaire Found With In-N-OutBB

Coke Engineers Its Orange Juice—With an AlgorithmBusinessweek

Before There Was Facebook: The Seeds Of Silicon Valleyco.create
PBS documentary American Experience: Silicon Valley captures the origin of the Northern California technology hub through the eyes of its first startup, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the advent of the microchip and the modern-day entrepreneurial culture.

Buffett’s Son Says He’s Prepared Whole Life for Berkshire RoleBB

  PSYCHOLOGY
The (Really) Invisible GorillaFarnam Street
Even doctors looking at x-ray pictures miss the gorilla

John Cleese: How to Stamp Out CreativityThe Reformed Broker

Study Seeks Biomarkers for Invisible War ScarsNYT
Over the past decade, about half a million veterans have received diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury. Thousands have received both. Yet underlying the growing numbers lies a disconcerting question: How many of those diagnoses are definitive? And how many more have been missed?

Baba Shiv: How to Make Better DecisionsFarnam Street
Baba Shiv demystifies the brain chemistry that controls our decision making, and explains how you can regulate it to make better decisions. He also answers the question, “Is it better to make decisions in the morning or the afternoon?”

A Dose of Narcissism Can Be UsefulSciAm
The sharp sword of narcissism can cut both ways

One Persuasion Technique Everyone Should KnowFarnam Street
The answer is: the ‘But You Are Free’ technique. This simple approach is all about reaffirming people’s freedom to choose. When you ask someone to do something, you add on the sentiment that they are free to choose.

Soft Skills for Finance: Tools for Decoding Your Personality and Work StyleCFA Institute


How To Stay Sane: The Art of Revising Your Inner Storytellingbrain pickings
 “Our stories give shape to our inchoate, disparate, fleeting impressions of everyday life.”


  MEDIA
The Stars of The Walking Dead as You've (Probably) Never Seen Themmental floss

'Walking Dead' actor joins 'Mythbusters' zombie episodeInside TV

The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million New ShowThe Atlantic Wire
The show costs Netflix about $50 million a season to produce. Netflix intends to have five new shows of a similar scale every year. Yet most of its revenue comes from people paying $7.99 a month for a streaming subscription. It doesn’t use ads to top up that revenue. If Netflix wants to recoup the costs of producing the shows then the shows need to attract 2.6 million new individuals who subscribe for two years. Yet for Netflix this would be an increase of less than 10%. Last year Netflix increased its US membership by about 13%.

When Newspapers Were New, or, How Londoners Got Word of the PlagueThe Atlantic
Daniel Defoe's novel about London's 1665 plague can help us understand new media. No, really.

3 Big Ideas to Steal From NetflixTIME

  MILSECINT
War on terrorism: ‘A network of eager CIA helpers’presseurop
A total of 54 countries took part in secret CIA detention and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects after the September 11 attacks, according to a report by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). Some countries are said to have let CIA planes use their airspace or refuel, others, including Poland and Lithuania, hosted so called “black sites” where terrorist suspects were transported, interrogated and tortured.

The Worldview of Lee Kuan YewThe Diplomat
Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew has been called the “Kissinger of the orient.” As he turns 90 this year, he presents an interesting perspective on geopolitics.

FiveBooks Interviews: Andy McNab on The Politics of WarThe Browser

  SOCIETY
A post-democratic societyeuropp / LSE
A post-democratic society is one that continues to have and to use all the institutions of democracy, but in which they increasingly become a formal shell

Complacency in a Leaderless WorldProject Syndicate
Joseph E. Stiglitz: In the last 25 years, we have moved from a world dominated by two superpowers to one dominated by one, and now to a leaderless, multi-polar world. While we may talk about the G-7, or G-8, or G-20, the more apt description is G-0. We will have to learn how to live, and thrive, in this new world.

What’s the cost and financial value of college?MIT
At MIT, experts say evidence shows the payoff from college education remains high.

Want to be an ambassador in Paris? That'll be $1.1 millionWonkblog / WP
The president, after all, is in charge of naming U.S. ambassadors all over the world. And historically, about 55 of those spots have gone to “political” appointees — wealthy donors or top fund-raisers. These are usually gigs in nice, stable countries like France or Italy.

  OTHER
18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained In Plain EnglishBI
Limiting the available vocabulary forces one to simplify

Booze and broken noses: Russia’s in-flight brawlersThe World / FT

7 Iconic Skylines That Almost Looked Ridiculouscracked

The 2013 Sony World Photography AwardsThe Atlantic

Reincarnation in ExileBeliever
The challenges of growing up in the modern world as the reincarnation of a famous Tibetan lama.

The cold hard facts of freezing to deathOutside
As freezing persons recollect the snow: first chill, then stupor, then the Letting Go

Raging (Again) Against the RobotsNYT

And Now Let Us Praise, and Consider the Absurd Luck of, Famous MenThe Atlantic

Leaving the magic intactThe Reformed Broker

Waiters In The Former Soviet UnionCentives

For a Global Life, Bloomberg Builds His Own British EmpireNYT

What Are Dogs Saying When They Bark?SciAm


IN FINNISH
Ristamäki: Liukas VanhanenIL

Piru vieköön, Jyrki KatainenEsko Seppänen / US Puheenvuoro
Tämä kirjoitus on tehty sinun ylioptimististen lausuntojesi perusteella ja takia. Minä toimin 13 vuotta europarlamentin budjettivaliokunnassa ja seurasin tarkasti kahdet aikaisemmat EU:n budjettikehysneuvottelut. Niiden kokemusten perusteella en luota hitusenkaan vertaa sinun arvioosi Suomen osasta eilisessä ”sovussa”.

Islanti ja talletussuojaHannu Visti

Äärioikeisto etenee kuin ilmastonmuutosOlli Herrala / KL

Suomen EU-laskuun tulee miljoonien korotusHS
Pääministeri hehkutti Suomen "taittaneen EU-nettomaksuosuutensa kasvun". Silti Suomi maksaa jopa 200 miljoonaa euroa enemmän kuin ennen.

Eurojuhlien aika ei ole vieläRisto Pennanen / TalSa
Veronmaksajat ovat pelastaneet eurosijoittajat pahimmalta. Nyt pelastetut vaativat veronmaksajille kuria.