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Roger Lowenstein on Jamie Dimon, “America’s least-hated banker.”  (NYTimes)

Five new sites for (long) readers.  (Big Picture)

“Essentially we always pay for risk-taking behaviours, but we can either do it by making small down-payments along the way or through a whopping great huge one at the end.”  (The Psy-Fi Blog)

The rise of computational forensics.  (IEEE spectrum via The Browser)

Han Rosling’s 200 countries, 200 years in 4 minutes.  (BBC via YouTube)

The inside story of “wild wacky, and profitable” BoingBoing.  (Wired)

A really deep dive into the new Gawker Media.  (Felix Salmon)

Is Oregon’s speed offense the future of football?  (NYTimes)

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