I recommend this interesting lecture by journalist William Langewiesche on his new book The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor which is available as part of the University of Chicago’s podcast “The World Beyond the Headlines.” Video and audio available here.
Slavoj Zizek’s also has a related short essay entitled Give Iranian [...]

Prompted by fond memories of reading The Great Gatsby in high school, I recently picked up F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first book, This Side of Paradise. I found it quite enjoyable and more experimental in style than I was expecting.
Here’s an interesting excerpt in which the protagonist, Amory Blaine, “interviews” himself:
Q.-What would be the test [...]

I’ve been reading about Tim Ferriss’ new book The 4-Hour Workweek after seeing it mentioned on Scoble’s blog. There are definitely some elements of Don Lapre in the presentation but I did find his outsourcing life idea interesting and oddly humorous.
Despite my skepticism, I looked through Tim’s site1 in a little more detail and stumbled [...]