Links you may have missed (Dec 5, 2011)
Some joys
Wine Tasting May Be An Art, But There Is Science In The Swirl (Worldcrunch)
Il giro del mondo in 30 colazioni (dissapore) – photo series - breakfast anyone?
Indottrinamento al cioccolato: esegue Gianluca Franzoni di Domori (dissapore)
Some things political, economic…
Is Germany’s future still European? (Eurozine)
The curious case of German leadership (Centre For European Reform)
Jean Pisani-Ferry video interview on eurobonds (Bruegel TV)
Jacques Delors interview: Euro would still be strong if it had been built to my plan (The Telegraph) – interview with architect of the eurozone
In Translation: Ahmed al-Sawy on the elections – “This isn’t the final bout” (The Arabist)
Some of the thinkers…
Umberto Eco: ‘People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged’ (Guardian)
‘We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to’ (Independent) – Nobel Prize winner for Economics analyzes how we make decisions — I’m going to buy his book.
What does seven billion look like? (Fathom) - – graphic illustration (saw this on fastcodesign.com)
Good to know
Attempted Malvertising on KrebsOnSecurity.com (KrebsOnSecurity)
One of the heroes
A Video Message from Carlo Petrini (Slow Food) – Italian w/English subtitles – click on screenshot below to see video
Alice Waters: USA’s mother of Slow Food
Last Sunday, renown chef Alice Waters was featured in an interview on 60 Minutes. She talked about why fresh, organically-grown food is so important for human beings and the planet they call home.
Waters is on the advisory board for Slow Food USA, which is part of Slow Food International (see post here) founded in Italy by Carlo Petrini.
