WORTHWHILE READING & VIEWING
Posted by David Foster on August 28th, 2013 (All posts by David Foster)
How did Estonia become a leader in technology?
Richard Fernandez on the creation of a whole generation of risk-averse elites
Why is the golden age of television so dark?
Finding the right balance between optimism and realism
How to evaluate your own emotional intelligence
How the politicized life is destroying society
Flying aboard the PanAm–Boeing Clipper, circa 1940
Transoceanic aircraft navigation in the Clipper era. (The author uses the term “bearing” incorrectly: the proper term for the direction the airplane is headed in is actually “heading.)
The man who loved not wisely, but at least twice
August 28th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
O/T but the sort of thing I thought might interest you chaps.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100232933/imagine-that-russia-had-colonised-america/
August 28th, 2013 at 1:01 pm
David, the Fernandez link needs to be corrected.
August 28th, 2013 at 2:14 pm
Fernandez fixed…thanks, MK
August 28th, 2013 at 4:51 pm
The Richard Fernandez link goes to the Estonia article.
August 28th, 2013 at 4:58 pm
For a moment there, I thought you had a link to my biography at the end. At least I can be thankful for a less painful story.
August 29th, 2013 at 6:26 am
“Why is the golden age of television so dark?”
Art is but a reflection of society.