10 Weekend Reads

January 19, 2013 6:45am by Barry Ritholtz

Some longer form articles to start your weekend:

• Edge: Steven Cohen, Art Collector (n+1)
• Rage Against the Machine: 200 years ago, the Luddites tried to stop technological progress. They didn’t succeed (The Smart Set)
• Airlines: We’re not going to tell you how much this will cost (Gulliver)
• How Natural is Human Sleep? (Psychology Today)
• A Brain With a Heart: Oliver Sacks has made a literary art of staring into the minds of others. (NY Magazine)
• Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized? (NYT)
• The Fox NFL broadcast factory: The more things stay the same (SB Nation) see also Why the US media ignored Murdoch’s brazen bid to hijack the presidency (theguardian)
• The Evolutionary Mystery of Homosexuality (Chronicle)
• Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study of rock and pop star mortality and its association with adverse childhood experiences (BMJ Open)
• Esquire’s Interview with Megan Fox Is the Worst Thing Ever Written (Vice)

What’s up this weekend?

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Source: The Economist

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