Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

China won the first Olympic gold ... by manufacturing uniforms.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Patent Trawler Aims to Predict Next Hot Technologies. (NewScientist)
• The 10 Things Economics Can Tell Us About Happiness. (TheAtlantic)
• In Age of Twitter, NBC Rewrites Olympic Playbook. (Wall Street Journal)
• Salt, We Misjudged You. We Only Think We Know the Truth About Salt. (NYTimes)
• 'Sterilization Team' Cleans Away Madonna's DNA. Here's a diva demand you probably haven't heard before … (Newser)

 

Trading Links:

• Top 100 Respected Companies, Ranked By Investors. Apple is No. 1 (LATimes)
• Frenemies: Small Retailers Forced to Compete with Amazon on Amazon. (WSJ)
• Investors Cast Doubt on End-of-World Hedge Strategies. (Reuters)
• The Choice in 2012: Social Darwinism or a Decent Society? (RobertReich)
• Wealth Funds Step Up Their Activities. Sovereign wealth funds are becoming more active. They made investments worth 42 percent more in 2011 than in 2010. (FT)