3.28.2009

Weekend Links

Some Remarkable Bookstores
Photos of some of the most beautiful bookstores in the world
http://www.miragebookmark.ch/most-interesting-bookstores.htm

How We Decide
Review of a new book about the neurophysiology of decision-making
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/books/review/Johnson-t.html?8bu&emc=bua2

Twitter Book Club
An online book group that begins with Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper & the Professor
http://www.picadorbookclub.com

Predictably Irrational (Video)
An excellent talk about how we are so readily led to make foolish decisions.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html

Subway Bookspotting
Peeking to see what another person is reading
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/03/bookspotting-re.html

More Nudges (Video)
The subtle and not so subtle ways we are influenced
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7127723&page=1

What Recession?
Learning to step back from the troubling times
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7127723&page=1

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