Let's start light: Interesting Bookcase designs :)
New Ideas in Online Retail of Apparels - technology & customization
Article on rise in power of money in american elections, especially after the Citizen's United verdict of Supreme court #PAC or political action committees
Efforts to make a really free and democratic internet. Also, shows how internet's current (business) structure of doing things through ISPs has made it easy to control
Al Gore's manifesto for sustainable capitalism
Good and detailed analysis of Obama as President
Good article for some ideas on the right balance between incremental and disruptive innovation
Clayton Christensen on how new financial tools destroy innovation
Impact of famous blogs on papers published in economics. Super star effect
Umair Haque on what should we do in life. Though written in reference to Davos WEF. 10 things
Interesting ideas on how to redefine education in developing countries
Paul Romer's speech - IMF. On economic crisis
Umair Haque's valentine's day post on love - generically on relationships - slightly philosophical
Facebook's ranking algorithms - Edgerank and Graphrank described
Great piece on explosion in human population and a sick (though maybe true) argument on how income inequality is just another struggle for survival in the evolutionary sense
Seriously Rapid Source Review- tool to find live-reporting or eye witness sources on Twitter
US Foreign Policy, Iran, methods to increase utility of prediction excercises
Tibetan self-immolations & extreme Chinese security in Aba
Note on the Reality of Tax-progressivity in USA
Ideas and quality of debate in US of 1912 on income inequality as an evil and against democracy
Bashing FED and hailing Ayn Rand atlas shrugged style
We humans have two parallel sets of moral-beliefs to help us make the decisions
http://www.newscientist.com/
Interesting finding: Specialized skills force people to vote for welfare state as they have already made a risky investment in acquiring such skills - folks with generic skills go against welfare state. School and education systems provide and shape such input into labor-force and political-economy
How people become experts in anything - deliberate practice
How experts/winners can sustain superior performance
Mathematical equations which describe most of physics
In future both education and work would become more and more informal, and look like a coffee-shop
Risks and injustice because memories are fuzzy. Also, how new memories can even be created
On drugs that could enhance or boost memory
Learning disability/dyslexia means a person can't focus for long but there is trade-off and it may mean such people can detect abnormalities in confusing patterns faster
How Chinese property ownership concept got started in 1978 in a small village, and then China forever
Speech by Christina Romer of Berkeley on financial crisis
Great post for data-visualizations freaks
Why privatization of public goods may not be a good idea
Charts shown to US Senate on income inequality in USA
Ideas for good business practices in retail sector
Open Government Initiative by White House to put most data in public domain
Interesting infographic comparing Africa's size to most of the important countries
Joseph Nye on Women's role in Future - building up from Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature
Article on how conservatives are genetically different from liberals
To find new and interesting books to read
Technology progress has been superexponential in last 2 centuries
Economist's article on how scientists are trying to understand why the universe is expanding
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