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Great Articles about Money
tetw: The Best of Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt - How to make it, why we steal it , how to bet with it, and how it motivates us. A selection of the best articles from NYT column that became an international sensation. To Have is To Owe by David Graeber - A lot of people have little understanding of what money really is - if you want to find out, this classic article is the place to start. Three great articles about the financial crisis by Michael Lewis - The world’s top financial reporter heads to Greece, Iceland and Ireland to find out how the credit crisis changed the world. Jonathan Lebed’s Extracurricular Activities by Michael Lewis - Another classic Lewis piece about how a 15-year-old became the first ever minor to face prosecution for stock market fraud. The Great American Bubble Machine by Matt Taibbi - “The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” The $20 Theory of the Universe by Tom Chiarella - A beginner’s guide to bribery. Find out just how far greasing people’s palms with a $20 bill can get you. Why the Poor Pay More by DeNeen L. Brown - “The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. A primer on the economics of poverty.” Inconspicuous Consumption by Virgina Postrel - What do the things you spend your money on say about you? Is Free the Future by Malcolm Gladwell - The author asks whether the internet will make paying money for stuff a thing of the past. (via moneyisnotimportant)
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Beasties Video Collection
A-Trak on the Beasties & a collection of their videos
Charles Bello has spent the last 40 years handbuilding a succession of homes with timber cut and milled from his 400 acres in Northern California.
Photos by Leslie Williamson.
Learn more about his quest to acquire and preserve redwood forests at www.savetrees.org.
"A perfect man wd. never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people), like a crutch, which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it’s idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (or own loves, tastes, habits etc) can do the journey on their own!"
C.S. Lewis, in a letter to a child. (via explore-blog)
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Provence Camping
Yurts and Teepees Please!
Jay Nemeth—Red Bull/Getty Images
March 15, 2012. Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria is seen before his jump during the first manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos, based in Roswell, New Mexico.
From the conflict in Afghanistan and a tragic bus accident in Switzerland to Purim celebrations in Israel and the one-year anniversary of the Japanese tsunami, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See more here.
Don’t you wish all party photos wiggled like this?
TIP: Check out the Photojojo guide to shooting & making 3D wiggles.
