I have not posted my ran­dom list of inter­est­ing reads and videos in a while. Please excuse this longer-than-usual list as I play a lit­tle catch-up.

• Aca­d­e­mic Pub­lish­ers Make Mur­doch Look Like a Social­ist — George Monbiot
• 12 Things Happy Peo­ple Do Dif­fer­ently — Marc
• Stop­ping the Mid-Career Cri­sis — Athena Vongalis-Macrow
• 50 Nat­ural Ways to Boost Your Energy — Marc
• Unau­to­mate Your Money — Adam Baker
• The Under­ap­pre­ci­a­tion of Rest in Today’s Soci­ety — Joshua Becker
• Bask­ing in the Glow Of Un-Productivity — Court­ney Carver
• How to Build a Com­puter From Scratch — Whit­son Gordon
• The Best PCs  You Can Build For $600 and $1200 — Alan Henry
  
• What Google’s Famous Cafe­te­rias Can Teach Us About Health — Mar­ion Nes­tle
  
• Step Away From the Blog — Stu­art Mills
  
• Your Brain on Med­i­ta­tion — Anne Trafton
• The Ben­e­fits of Med­i­ta­tion- Jon Rhodes
  
• The Amer­i­can Novel — Joseph Epstein
  
• Beyond the Stan­dard Essay — Scott Jaschik
• Why Do Col­lege Stu­dents Love Get­ting Wasted? — Thomas Rogers
• The Lost Art of Post­card Writ­ing — Charles Simic
• 10 Immutable Laws of Mis­takes — Alan Norton
  
• Ten Things Every­one Should Know About Time — Sean Carroll
• Evo­lu­tion of the Web — Google Chrome Team
• 10 Online Tooles for Bet­ter Atten­tion & Focus — Joce­lyn K. Glei
• Writ­ing With­out Read­ing is Like _______. — Macy Halford
• Set­ting Bound­aries & Say­ing No … Nicely — Eliz­a­beth Grace Sanders
• The Last Closet — Will Leitch
• How Fast Can China Go? — Simon Winchester
• How Whole Foods “Primes” You to Shop — Der­ren Brown
  
• Carla Hall Digs into Day­time TV with ‘The Chew’ — Tim Carman
• What’s Inside: Red Wine — Patrick Di Justo
  
• How Should We Make Hard Deci­sions? — Jonah Lehrer
• The Kin­dle Fire, the iPad, and What Tablets are Good For — Nilay Patel
• Haruki Murakami: Tal­ent is Noth­ing With­out Focus and Endurance — Joce­lyn K. Glei
• Should I Respond to Every Email? — Joce­lyn K. Glei
• Why Suc­cess Always Starts With Fail­ure — Sarah Rapp
• 5 Ways to Turn Fear into Fuel — Jonathan Fields
• Do Prin­ci­pals Know Good Teach­ing When They See It? — Melinda Burns
• Black Amer­ica and Obama: The Cost of Silence — Fred­er­ick Meade
• 10 Things to Stop Car­ing About Today — Marc
• How the Refrig­er­a­tor Got Its Hum — Alice Bell
• Why You Can’t Buy Cre­ativ­ity — Mark McGuinness
• How to Plan a Do-Nothing Vaca­tion — Leif Pettersen
• Why Do Some Peo­ple Learn Faster? — Jonah Lehrer
• Seek­ing the Story Behind Genius — Cal Newport
• Black Pres­i­dent, Dou­ble Stan­dard: Why White Lib­er­als are Aban­don­ing Obama — Melissa Harris-Perry
• The Epis­te­mol­ogy of Race — Melissa Harris-Perry
  

Words — Everynone