From the Archives: 8/20/2012 Edition

Facebook investors brace for new shares

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-20/facebook-investors-brace-for-more-shares-coming-to-market.html

Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/08/paul-ryans-randianism

Shmooze or Lose, inside Barack Obamas relationship with Billionaire Donors

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/27/120827fa_fact_mayer

How to not be the biggest asshole in media, a review of Jay Mariotti’s book

http://deadspin.com/5917795/how-to-avoid-being-the-biggest-asshole-in-media-4-lessons-i-learned-from-meeting-jay-mariotti-and-reading-his-atrocious-book

Inside Larry Ellisons quest to make the America’s Cup Watchable

http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/ff_americascup_ellison/all/

Geology and Genesis

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/geology-and-genesis-how-noahs-flood-shaped-ideas-but-not-landscapes/

How Robots are changing manufacturing

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-global-industry.html?_r=1

One Millionaires quest to build the biggest library

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/brewster-kahle/all/

The Racial Divide on Sneakers

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/08/the-racial-divide-on-sneakers/261256/

We shouldn’t give up on SETI

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/we-shouldnt-give-up-on-seti