10 Weekend Reads

December 29, 2012 6:15am by Barry Ritholtz

Some longer form reads to begin your extended weekend:

• Scientology: The Tip of the Spear (LA Magazine) Note: This is the article that brought Scientology into the light tears ago
• Ooh a chair! Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China (NYT)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty (The New Atlantis) but see The Folly of Scientism (The New Atlantis)
• The Boy Who Became a World War II Veteran at 13 Years Old (Past Imperfect)
• The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America’s Middle Class (Rolling Stone)
• The Fixers: How ‘Fix the Debt’ Won Over Wall Street and Built a Fiscal Cliff Army (NY Magazine)
• What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? (Smithsonian)
• Three lessons from the near-final popular vote (Los Angeles Times) see also Setting the Stage for a Second Term (TIME)
• Alan Turing in three words (The Times Literary Supplement)
• What are the top five books you must-read? (Barking Up The Wrong Tree)

What do you have going on this weekend?

Why you’re right to be obsessed with Apple stock

Source: Fortune

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