10 Weekend Reads

March 15, 2014 7:00am by Barry Ritholtz

Pour yourself a strong cuppa Joe, and start your Saturday morning with my longer form, weekend reads:

• Richard Branson: The Stuntman (London Review of Books)
• Meet DARPA’s new generation of robots (Aeon) see also Your Job Taught to Machines Puts Half U.S. Work at Risk (Bloomberg)
• Edward Snowden SXSW: Full Transcription and Video (Inside)
• Drowning in Light: How Technology Feeds our Addiction to Light (Nautilus)
• Inside The Barista Class (The Awl)
• DataBall: The new Basketball Stats (Grantland) see also Meet the world’s most marketed 12-year-old basketball player (Tampa Bay)
• Exposing the big lie of the post-crash economy (TNR)
• The intolerance of uneconomic economics (Pieria)
• The Story Behind the Rob Ford Story (The Walrus)
• That Chop on the Upbeat: Junior Braithwaite and the history of Jamaican popular music (Oxford American)

60 and sunny in the NYC area — looks like a top down kinda day!

Number of U.S. Millionaires Reaches Record High

Source: CNN Money

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