Two propositions hold true for the majority of people I know if they are ever asked about its application to them :
1. Reading a book will take up a lot of my spare time
2. I do not have spare time!
Now take a moment to think about how you get most of your daily dose of News about the world around you :
– a quick peek into the website of your preferred publication
– a squint into the false “breaking news” clip as you sip your coffee
– a passing glance at the shallow newspaper in the subway or in the loo
– a distracted browse on your phone during your limited downtime in the day = in the loo?
How many of these insipid vapid squirts registered with you ? How many stories in the last 100 days really stayed with you and that you could effortlessly recount to your friends, in this era of blaring headlines, instant analysis, and perishable sound bites.? I am going to wager the number is a fraction of the total news crisps you munch everyday and equally hazardous to your health.
Most news clips on TV, the newspaper or in the app you read barely skims the news and abjectly fails at educating you on all the many angles and players in a story. You are the guy trying to tell time when all he can see it the Seconds needle. A news clip seen here, a clip read there, in the heat of the news cycle about an issue is like trying to understand the Mona Lisa with your nose 1mm away from it at the bottom corner. To really understand the painting you need to slowly step back and observe it from a decent distance.
The antidote to all this above litany of complaints : Longform Articles. Longform journalism is a branch of journalism dedicated to longer articles with larger amounts of content. The length of longform articles is between that of a traditional article and that of a periodical. These articles, usually 4000+ words or longer, will nullify most of the above negatives and yet take only a small slice of the time books will ask of you. Many of the boring books I suffered over the years, typically 100,000 words or longer, could have been culled into a crisp punchy Longform article I would have liked versus the book I didn’t.
All this above slowly percolated into my ADHD riddled head over the course of 2015 and so one of my 2016 new year resolutions was that I would read 100 Longform articles in 2016.
A typical book is about 100,000 words long. A typical longform article is about 4000 words. 100 articles X 4000 words = 400,000 words. Which means reading 100 longform articles is akin to reading 4 thick books. But on 100 different topics! This is the kind of range and value that excites me. Additionally I decided I was going to read omnivorously when it came to article sources and topics. Nothing was off limits. I would not stick to one publication, website, theme or subject. And I vowed to diligently keep track of the links to all articles I read so I could share it forward (which I am doing now)
I finished the 100th Article TODAY (22 Sept 2016), about 100 days before the year end deadline, which speaks less about my brittle diligence but volumes about how pleasurable this resolution was (versus staid aims like “Eat less junk food”). Now for your reading pleasure I have listed below the 100 articles I read along with links to all 100 articles online. Every single one is free and readily available to be enjoyed.
So why really read them at all ? …Because should you dive in, you will emerge more informed, more aware and more interesting at the other end of the reading lake. 100 cool stories at your fingertips. Knowledge compounds and this is a good thick principal to deposit into the mental bank.
Among the varied stories, you will read how Tiger Woods imploded after his dad died, how a famous US retail chain spectacularly cocked up a store inauguration, how a demure medical nurse became good at robbing banks, how some students in India lose their identity prepping for a brutal test, why does one of the world’s most reviled technologies keep winning, what was it to see Michael Jackson’s iconic first moonwalk onstage, travel to a place no country wants to claim, why Socialism failed, why Cryonics makes sense, understand the life of Muhammad Ali, smell the desperation of US law firms in the age of austerity, investigate who owns London’s most expensive mansion, take a terrifying journey through the World’s Most Dangerous Jungle and see how the new Panama Canal was built.
That above is just a sliver of the full rich tasty cake. I have also added 2 data graphs on the key themes and sources to the Longforms so you can choose more intelligently. I wish you Happy Reading in cozy cafes or deep sofas or comfy loos for the upcoming winter!
My favorite 10 from an already solid list of 100 good articles are :
| THE Last Days Of Target – The untold tale of Target Canada’s difficult birth, tough life and brutal death |Link : http: //www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-canada/ |
| How Tiger Woods imploded |Link : http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15278522/how-tiger-woods-life-unraveled-years-father-earl-woods-death |
| Twilight of the Petrostate |Link : http://nationalinterest.org/feature/twilight-the-petrostate-16235 |
| Why 57 Young Students Have Taken Their Lives In Kota |Link : http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/06/01/life-and-death-in-kota_n_10232456.html?utm_hp_ref=india |
| A Terrifying Journey Through the World’s Most Dangerous Jungle: The Darién Gap |Link : http://www.outsideonline.com/2098801/skull-stake-darien-gap |
| The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic – Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself |Link : http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic |
| The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá |Link : http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/magazine/the-mixed-up-brothers-of-bogota.html?_r=0# |
| Construction is turning London into a city of holes |Link : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/282e51f0-0683-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce.html |
| The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru : How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. |Link : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html?_r=0 |
| Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Sam Harris |Link : http://quillette.com/2016/04/21/free-speech-and-islam-in-defense-of-sam-harris/ |
The full list of all 100 Longform articles :
| Sourced from Bloomberg || Subject : business || Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup. Then It Self-Disrupted || URL : http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-zenefits/ |
| Sourced from Canadian Business || Subject : business || THE LAST DAYS OF TARGET – The untold tale of Target Canada’s difficult birth, tough life and brutal death || URL : http: //www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-canada/ |
| Sourced from Financial Times || Subject : business || Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity || URL : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0ca06172-bfe9-11de-aed2-00144feab49a.html |
| Sourced from Fortune || Subject : business || The Last Stand of Ken Chenault. Can he win back investors and fix what ails AmEx before his time runs out? || URL : http://fortune.com/ken-chenault-american-express/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE |
| Sourced from Fortune || Subject : business || Silicon Valley’s $585 Billion Problem – Fortune on the Unicorn Bubble || URL : http://fortune.com/silicon-valley-tech-ipo-market/ |
| Sourced from New Yorker || Subject : business || How Should We Read Investor Letters? = Considering the correspondence between C.E.O.s and shareholders as a literary genre. || URL : http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/05/jeff-gramms-dear-chairman-boardroom-battles-and-the-rise-of-shareholder-activism |
| Sourced from New Yorker || Subject : business || The Bank Robber : The dodgy computer technician who exposed a Swiss bank’s darkest secrets. || URL : http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/herve-falcianis-great-swiss-bank-heist?intcid=popular |
| Sourced from New Yorker || Subject : business || Not So Fast – Scientific management started as a way to work. How did it become a way of life? || URL : http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/12/not-so-fast |
| Sourced from Newrepublic || Subject : business || The Brutal Ageism of Tech : Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete || URL : https://newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-brutal-ageism |
| Sourced from Newrepublic || Subject : business || The Last Days of Big Law : The money is drying up—and America’s most storied law firms are terrified || URL : https://newrepublic.com/article/113941/big-law-firms-trouble-when-money-dries |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : business || How Uber conquered London || URL : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/how-uber-conquered-london |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : business || On Craft BeerMaker, BREWDOG || URL : http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/24/the-aggressive-outrageous-infuriating-and-ingenious-rise-of-brewdog |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : business || The Fall of China’s Hedge Fund King Xu Xiang || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/magazine/the-fall-of-chinas-hedge-fund-king.html? |
| Sourced from Vanity Fair || Subject : business || How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down – A searing investigation into the once lauded biotech start-up Theranos || URL : http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-exclusive |
| Sourced from Vanity Fair || Subject : business || The Valeant Meltdown and Wall Street’s Major Drug Problem || URL : http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/the-valeant-meltdown-and-wall-streets-major-drug-problem#22 |
| Sourced from Vanity Fair || Subject : business || The Man Who Crashed the World : How an AIG divison lead by Joe Cassano blew it spectacularly || URL : http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/08/aig200908-2 |
| Sourced from Daedtech || Subject : career || The Beggar CEO and Sucker Culture || URL : http://www.daedtech.com/the-beggar-ceo-and-sucker-culture/ |
| Sourced from Espn || Subject : celebrity || How Tiger Woods imploded || URL : http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15278522/how-tiger-woods-life-unraveled-years-father-earl-woods-death |
| Sourced from GQ || Subject : celebrity || GQ profiles Melania Trump || URL : http://www.gq.com/story/melania-trump-gq-interview |
| Sourced from GQ || Subject : celebrity || On Stephen Colbert on Making The Late Show His Own || URL : http://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story |
| Sourced from bbc || Subject : crime || The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit || URL : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32481834 |
| Sourced from Bloomberg || Subject : crime || How the Secret Service busted a counterfeiting ring in NJ || URL : http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-counterfeit-money/ |
| Sourced from California Sunday || Subject : crime || On the 43 murdered students of Mexico || URL : https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-01-04/mexico-the-disappeared-en/ |
| Sourced from California Sunday || Subject : crime || The Lost Man :The mysterious circumstances of his death in Australia have captivated generations of true-crime fanatics. || URL : https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-06-07/somerton-man/ |
| Sourced from California Sunday || Subject : crime || The Murder of Sheena by her mom Indrani || URL : https://story.californiasunday.com/mumbai-murder-mukerjeas |
| Sourced from The Telegraph || Subject : crime || On the HattonGarden heist || URL : http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/Hatton-Garden-is-it-still-possible-to-get-away-with-a-heist/index.html |
| Sourced from The National Interest || Subject : current affairs || Twilight of the Petrostate || URL : http://nationalinterest.org/feature/twilight-the-petrostate-16235 |
| Sourced from New Yorker || Subject : current affairs || On Tunisia and Terrorism || URL : http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/28/tunisia-and-the-fall-after-the-arab-spring |
| Sourced from The Atlantic || Subject : current affairs || The Hell After ISIS : Many Sunnis say they have no hope for peace. One family’s story shows why || URL : http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/the-hell-after-isis/476391/ |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : current affairs || Trident: the British question || URL : http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/11/trident-the-british-question |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : current affairs || Behind the Barricades of Turkey’s Hidden War with Kurds || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/magazine/behind-the-barricades-of-turkeys-hidden-war.html?_r=0# |
| Sourced from Badassoftheweek || Subject : military || Operation Chavin de Huantar : How Peru mounted a daring hostage rescue operation || URL : http://www.badassoftheweek.com/chavin.html |
| Sourced from New Yorker || Subject : drama || The Hunt for El Chapo : How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured. || URL : http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/05/the-hunt-for-el-chapo?intcid=mod-most-popular |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : drama || The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst : For years, Wayne Simmons claimed to be a former C.I.A. operative. Then one ex-spook got suspicious. || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/magazine/the-plot-to-take-down-a-fox-news-analyst.html?_r=0 |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : drama || The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-battle-over-the-sea-monkey-fortune.html?_r=0# |
| Sourced from Wall Street Journal || Subject : drama || A Stolen Boy, an Angry Loner, an Underground Bunker || URL : http://graphics.wsj.com/hostage/?mod=videorelated |
| Sourced from Medium || Subject : economics || Machine Money and People Money : A Conversation about Universal Basic Income with John Maynard Keynes and Paul Buchheit || URL : https://medium.com/the-wtf-economy/machine-money-and-people-money-29b497eeb9d0#.s9bmzpopj |
| Sourced from Oaktree Capital Management || Subject : economics || On Political Reality : Memo from a seasoned hedge fund manager Howard Marks to clients – why people vote in bad politicians || URL : https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/political-reality.pdf |
| Sourced from Oaktree Capital Management || Subject : economics || On Economic Reality : Memo from a fund manager Howard Marks to clients – why presidential promises will fall flat || URL : https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/economic-reality.pdf |
| Sourced from Newrepublic || Subject : education || The Trouble With Harvard : The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it By Steven Pinker || URL : https://newrepublic.com/article/119321/harvard-ivy-league-should-judge-students-standardized-tests |
| Sourced from Atavist || Subject : fiasco || Sunk : How a Chinese billionaire’s dream of making an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legendary movie fiasco. || URL : https://read.atavist.com/sunk |
| Sourced from The Atlantic || Subject : military || The Desert One Debacle : How Operation Eagle Claw went sour || URL : http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/05/the-desert-one-debacle/304803/?single_page=true |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : fiasco || The New Panama Canal: A Risky Bet : How a $3.1 Billion Expansion Collided With Reality || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/22/world/americas/panama-canal.html?_r=0 |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : food || The Sugar Conspiracy || URL : http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin |
| Sourced from The Atlantic || Subject : Futurism || Nick Bostrom on Human Extinction || URL : http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/ |
| Sourced from Medium || Subject : history || History tells us what may happen next with Brexit & Trump || URL : https://medium.com/@theonlytoby/history-tells-us-what-will-happen-next-with-brexit-trump-a3fefd154714#.xwi1279q4 |
| Sourced from Paul Graham Blog || Subject : history || The Refragmentation of Developed world : Forces that shaped the 20th Century || URL : http://www.paulgraham.com/re.html |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : history || What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour of USA in 1870,1920,1970 and today || URL : http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/upshot/what-was-the-greatest-era-for-american-innovation-a-brief-guided-tour.html |
| Sourced from Atlanta Magazine || Subject : human interest story || Refuge: One Syrian family’s immigration to Georgia, USA || URL : http://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/refuge-one-syrian-familys-long-odyssey-to-georgia/ |
| Sourced from Esquire || Subject : human interest story || The Long Haul: One Year of Solitude on America’s Highways || URL : http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a40157/long-haul-year-trucking-america/?mod=e2this |
| Sourced from GQ || Subject : human interest story || Stud: How to Have 106 Babies (and Counting) || URL : http://www.gq.com/story/how-to-have-babies-sperm-donor-ed-houben |
| Sourced from GQ || Subject : human interest story || Inside the San Quentin Marathon || URL : http://www.gq.com/story/san-quentin-marathon |
| Sourced from Huffingtonpost || Subject : human interest story || Why 57 Young Students Have Taken Their Lives In Kota || URL : http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/06/01/life-and-death-in-kota_n_10232456.html?utm_hp_ref=india |
| Sourced from New York Magazine || Subject : human interest story || Inside Rikers Prison in NYC || URL : http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/inside-rikers-island-interviews.html |
| Sourced from Outside Magazine || Subject : human interest story || A Terrifying Journey Through the World’s Most Dangerous Jungle: The Darién Gap || URL : http://www.outsideonline.com/2098801/skull-stake-darien-gap |
| Sourced from Outside Magazine || Subject : human interest story || Everest veteran guide Dave Morton on what happens when you try to leave the world’s most lucrative mountain forever || URL : http://www.outsideonline.com/2064481/david-morton-and-ghosts-everest |
| Sourced from Science Magazine Nautilus || Subject : human interest story || The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic – Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself || URL : http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic |
| Sourced from Shtfplan || Subject : human interest story || Surviving in a war zone || URL : http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/a-survival-q-a-living-through-shtf-in-the-middle-of-a-war-zone_10252011 |
| Sourced from Statnews || Subject : human interest story || One man’s desperate quest for a brutal surgery || URL : https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/24/appendix-cancer-treatment/ |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : human interest story || My uncle and heroin: ‘What surprises me most – you have no teeth’ || URL : http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/10/my-uncle-and-heroin |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : human interest story || Three Generations Under One Roof – A portrait of a NYC based large Chinese Family || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/nyregion/one-roof-three-generations-portrait-of-a-chinese-american-family.html?_r=2 |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : human interest story || The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/magazine/the-mixed-up-brothers-of-bogota.html?_r=0# |
| Sourced from New Yorker || Subject : in depth profile || The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali || URL : http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-outsized-life-of-muhammad-ali |
| Sourced from New Yorker || Subject : in depth profile || The Astonishing Rise of Jeremy Corbyn || URL : http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/23/the-astonishing-rise-of-jeremy-corbyn?intcid=mod-most-popular |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : in depth profile || The Machiavelli of Maryland || URL : http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/09/edward-luttwak-machiavelli-of-maryland |
| Sourced from Fool || Subject : interview || An Interview With Dr. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics By Morgan Housel || URL : http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/06/28/an-interview-with-dr-daniel-kahneman.aspx |
| Sourced from Fortune || Subject : interview || Fortune interviews Jeff Bezos || URL : http://fortune.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-prime/ |
| Sourced from Reddit || Subject : interview || Reddit AMA with Alice Schroeder, author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. || URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/2550vq/hi_im_alice_schroeder_author_of_the_snowball?sort=qa |
| Sourced from Sam Harris Blog || Subject : interview || The Salon Interview of Sam Harris || URL : https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sam-harris-the-salon-interview |
| Sourced from The Great Discontent (Tgd) || Subject : interview || Seth Godin Interview || URL : http://thegreatdiscontent.com/interview/seth-godin |
| Sourced from The Great Discontent (Tgd) || Subject : interview || Interview of Merlin Mann, Productivity Guru || URL : http://thegreatdiscontent.com/interview/merlin-mann |
| Sourced from Washington Post || Subject : interview || The WSJ Interview of Tim Cook, CEO of Apple || URL : http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/wp/2016/08/13/2016/08/13/tim-cook-the-interview-running-apple-is-sort-of-a-lonely-job/ |
| Sourced from New Yorker || Subject : investigative journalism || House of Secrets – Who owns London’s most expensive mansion? || URL : http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/house-of-secrets |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : investigative journalism || How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html?_r=0 |
| Sourced from Medium || Subject : lifestyle || On the new “Shut in” Economy || URL : https://medium.com/matter/the-shut-in-economy-ec3ec1294816#.e9ajuagxn |
| Sourced from Washington Post || Subject : lifestyle || Day in the life of upper middle class teen : 13, right now : This is what it’s like to grow up in the age of likes, lols and longing || URL : http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/wp/2016/05/25/2016/05/25/13-right-now-this-is-what-its-like-to-grow-up-in-the-age-of-likes-lols-and-longing/ |
| Sourced from Financial Times || Subject : london || Construction is turning London into a city of holes || URL : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/282e51f0-0683-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce.html |
| Sourced from The Atlantic || Subject : management || The Triumph of Email – Why does one of the world’s most reviled technologies keep winning? || URL : http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/what-comes-after-email/422625/ |
| Sourced from The Atlantic || Subject : management || The Management Myth : Most of management theory is inane, writes our correspondent, the founder of a consulting firm. || URL : http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-management-myth/304883/ |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : media || How technology disrupted the truth – Social media has swallowed the news, ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. || URL : https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/12/how-technology-disrupted-the-truth |
| Sourced from Rolling Stone || Subject : music || Inside Michael Jackson’s Iconic First Moonwalk Onstage || URL : http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-michael-jackson-s-iconic-first-moonwalk-onstage-20151005 |
| Sourced from bbc || Subject : mystery || Body on the Moor. Why did this man travel 200 miles to die here? || URL : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-e8c6cbab-da44-4a3c-8f9b-c4fccd53dd24 |
| Sourced from Fivethirtyeight Blog || Subject : politics || The End Of A Republican Party : Racial and cultural resentment have replaced the party’s small government ethos. || URL : http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-end-of-a-republican-party/ |
| Sourced from The Foundation For Economic Education Org || Subject : politics || Why Socialism Failed || URL : https://fee.org/articles/why-socialism-failed/ |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : politics || Does the left have a future? || URL : http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/06/does-the-left-have-a-future |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : politics || The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru : How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html?_r=0 |
| Sourced from Extremist Vector || Subject : psycology || The 5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity || URL : http://www.extremistvector.com/content/stupid.html |
| Sourced from Genius || Subject : psycology || The Catastrophe of Success – by Tennessee Williams || URL : http://genius.com/Tennessee-williams-the-catastrophe-of-success-annotated |
| Sourced from Vanity Fair || Subject : psycology || How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield || URL : http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/05/ptsd-war-home-sebastian-junger |
| Sourced from Quillette || Subject : religion || Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Sam Harris || URL : http://quillette.com/2016/04/21/free-speech-and-islam-in-defense-of-sam-harris/ |
| Sourced from Vanity Fair || Subject : religion || When the King Saved God – Hitchens on The King James Bible || URL : http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/05/hitchens-201105?currentPage=all |
| Sourced from Bloomberg || Subject : scam || The Disastrous $45 Million Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer || URL : https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-premier-cru-john-fox/ |
| Sourced from Bloomberg || Subject : scam || The fake biofuel factory con || URL : http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-fake-biofuel-factory/ |
| Sourced from Mysterious Universe.Org || Subject : science & tech || On The Amazing Rise and Fall of a Rodent Utopia || URL : http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/03/the-amazing-rise-and-fall-of-a-rodent-utopia/ |
| Sourced from The New York Times || Subject : science & tech || The Minecraft Generation : How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world. || URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html |
| Sourced from Waitbutwhy Blog || Subject : science & tech || On Why Cryonics Makes Sense || URL : http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html |
| Sourced from Wired || Subject : science & tech || Magic Leap’s mind-bending technology tells us about the future of virtual reality || URL : https://www.wired.com/2016/04/magic-leap-vr/ |
| Sourced from Spiegel.De || Subject : travel || Crowding Out the Locals: Are Weekend Trips Ruining Europe’s Cities? || URL : http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/european-cities-test-measures-to-control-tourist-flows-a-1104903.html |
| Sourced from The Guardian || Subject : travel || Welcome to the land that no country wants || URL : http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the-land-that-no-country-wants-bir-tawil |
| Sourced from Wired || Subject : travel || Welcome to SpacePort! (Wired Writer Michael Hainey visits SPACEPORT in New Mexico and writes up about it) || URL : http://www.wired.com/2016/02/welcome-to-spaceport-america-your-rocket-will-depart-soon-ish/ |
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Very interesting article with a possible solution to the info overload we experience. Will certainly give it a try
Love your blog and nominated it for the Liebster. You can read about it on my blog. Hope you are well Shiva!