Weekend Readings

Tracking of NWA flight that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles...Comfortable yet?: Flight Aware
Excellent Article on the American Food Revolution
Those of you who know me know that I'm a huge fan of Malcolm Gladwell. Here's an interesting article on him and his latest book, What the Dog Saw.  Speaking of...here are three of Gladwell's book that you should, if you have not, read: Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers.
One of my favorite,thought-provoking economist on "multi-tasking": Tyler Cowen
Also another favorite economist from the same George Mason University where Prof. Cowen also teaches, Donald Boudreaux, on his defense of insider trading. Really thought-provocative!
Last but not least, I leave you with Bono's quasi-defense of Obama's Peace Prize: Rebranding America

On Books... Recently I polished off an excellent book about Warren Buffett, The Snowball. It is one of the best books I've read since Roger Lowenstein's Buffett:The Making of American Capitalist

Currently I'm reading a fascinating book on vampire mythology: Slayers And Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead . Bruce A. McClelland is a writer, translator, and vampirologist in Gordonsville, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Studies at the University of Virginia. His work on vampires has appeared in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. He has published four books of poetry, a book of translations of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, and his translations of Russian poetry have appeared in journals, books, and anthologies.