Good Saturday morn. Before you head out to enjoy your weekend, try perusing some of these dry aged longer format weekend reads:
• Farmaceuticals: the drugs fed to farm animals (Reuters)
• Madrick: Stuck on Inflation (NY Review of Books)
• One bank’s cost is another firm’s revenue (Medium)
• 40 Kilometers: Thinking about the data rich world (Om Malik)
• The Click Clique: How Dallas’s Amber Venz Transformed a Stylish Group of Young Bloggers into a Powerful Force in the World of Fashion — and made them rich along the way (Texas Monthly)
• How mathematics can make epidemics history (Aeon)
• Together We Make Football: On the NFL’s dark, intractable history of domestic violence (Grantland) see also Giving Up on Goodell: How the NFL lost the trust of its most loyal reporters. (Slate)
• Conservative Experiment Faces Revolt in Reliably Red Kansas (NYT)
• Why I Hope to Die at 75: Society and families and you will be better off if nature takes its course promptly (The Atlantic)
• Cary Elwes, aka Westley, Shares Inconceivable Tales From the Making of ‘The Princess Bride’ (Daily Beast)
What’s up for the weekend?
Companies’ Stock Buybacks Help Buoy the Market
Source: WSJ
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