• Sur­vey Paints Por­trait of Black Women in Amer­ica — Kris­sah Thompson
• Invis­i­ble Women: Black Britons Strug­gle to Be Heard — Liane Membis
• The 14 Beasts That Thwarts Us From the Higher Life — Nina Yau
• Learn­ing to Sit Alone, in a Quiet Empty Room — Leo Babauta
• 12 Things Suc­cess­ful Peo­ple Do Dif­fer­ently — Marc & Angel Hack Life
• The Essen­tial MBA Library  – OnlineMBA
• Trans­form­ing the Way We Work – Tony Schwartz
• Mo’s Dream: How Bacon Met Choco­late — Dana Goodyear
• The His­tory and Mys­tery of the High Five — Jon Mooallem
• Peel­ing Onion Town — Aaron  Lake Smith
• What Amer­i­cans Keep Ignor­ing About Finland’s School Suc­cess — Anu Partanen
• The His­tory of Eng­lish in 10 Min­utes — Ben­jamin Starr
• How Do We Iden­tify Good Ideas? — Jonah Leher
• A Fighter Abroad — Brian Phillips
• The Caging of Amer­ica — Adam Gopnik
• How Fox News Is Destroy­ing the Repub­li­can Party — Eric Boehlert
• The Big Ques­tion: Why Are We Here? – Psychology Today
• How Mrs. Grady Trans­formed Olly Neal — Nicholas D. Kristoff
• Too Many Gad­get Choices: Prod­uct Lines Sim­plify as Fatigue Sets In — Joshua Topolsky
• A Good Smart­phone Comes But Once a Year — Chris Ziegler
• How Esquire Sur­vived Publishing’s Dark Days — David Carr
• Face­book Picks a Fight With Google Over Who is More Evil — Matthew Ingram
• Swe­den Plans a New Super­high­way for Cyclists — Andrew Price
• Why Your Inner Critic is Your Best Friend — Mark McGuinness
• I Am a Lousy Copy­writer — Let­ters of Note
• Why Appre­ci­a­tion Mat­ters So Much — Tony Schwartz

Apple Labor Issues in China

• In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad — Charles Duhigg & David Barboza
• Apple’s Labor Prac­tices Come Under Fire from For­mer Exec­u­tives — Dieter Bohn
• Chi­nese Read­ers on the iEcon­omy — The New York Times
• Tim Cook Responds to Claims of Fac­tory Worker Mis­treat­ment: “We Care About Every Worker in Our Sup­ply Chain” — 9to5 Mac
• Let­ter to the New York Times from BSR — Aron Cramer

‘Booth Babe’ Con­tro­versy at the 2012 CES Tech Show

• The CES 2012 Booth Babe Prob­lem — Vio­let Blue
• ‘Booth Babes’ Stir Con­tro­versy at 2012 CES — BBC
• CES, Booth Babes, and How to Piss Off Female Tech Reporters — Adri­ana Lee
• On Booth Babes, CES, and Why This Female Tech Journo Thinks We Deserve a Bet­ter Apol­ogy — Taylor

 
9 Busi­nesses — 4Exit4

The woman jam­min’ around 2:46 in the video makes me smile.
 
 
What is the most inter­est­ing thing your read, saw, or watched, this week?