Sorry for the delay on this one — crazy hectic times this week! Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Tour de Timor. (If you couldn’t make the ride, you can still donate online!)
This Week’s Top 3
- ArsTechnica on Jeffrey Spanierman
- Robotic butt is even stranger than it sounds
- Profit — and Danger — in Miliseconds
Current Events
- US House votes to cut food stamps, not defense
- al-Nusra responsible for blasts in Syria
- Footage of Trayvon Martin at Convenience Store
Economics
- High-Frequency Traders like “rats in a granary”, says Warren Buffet’s right-hand man
- “The rise of the machine”: High frequency trading and food prices (Oxfam)
- JP Morgan Chase CEO Jaime Dimon: “We were sloppy and stupid”
- Opinion: Don’t trust JP Morgan chief’s spin machine
- Joseph Stiglitz: Europe’s Man-Made Disaster
- Paul Krugman on DemocracyNow!
- Too Hot for TED?: Income Inequality
- TED responds
Education
- Is higher education a giant pyramid scheme?
- NYC Education Dept Rules on Social Media
- Spanierman v. Hughes
Killer Robots, etc
Hip-Hop
- New Kingdom: Unicorns were Horses
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