Brilliant, brave, funny and fiercely committed. In a recent talk, Naomi Klein analyzes why we as a society are addicted to risk, and why this is creating so much destruction all around us.

Click on screenshot above to see video. Link here also.

Egyptian women and the revolution (Arabist)

More details on the “faster than the speed of light” neutrinos (ars technica)

The end of motoring (Guardian) – again, something no one predicted offers some hope in climate change crisis

Hal Foster: ‘If the Shard is a symbol of anything it’s a symbol of finance capitalism’ (Guardian) – video – Princeton art professor discusses Renzo Piano’s new creation from a political perspective. Interesting!

Professor Einstein, you can relax. E still equals mc2. Probably … (Guardian)

Saudi women given voting rights (Aljazeera) – with video

Al Jazeera’s change of guard (Aljazeera) — the news channel reports on itself and recent management surprise

Claire Tomalin: ‘Writing induces melancholy. You’re alone, a hermit’  (Guardian) – interview with author of new Charles Dickens biography. I can’t wait to read it! – related video below.

“Microsoft paid out ‘more than £1 million’ to female executive” (Telegraph)

“THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM: Google Zooms In On Art” (Huffington Post) – extraordinary!

Today’s treat: (click on video)

Quatuor Artemis _ Beethoven, Op.135 “Lento assai, cantante & tranquillo”.mov – (video above)

Greenpeace Takes a Stand Against Facebook’s Unclean Ways (AgencySpy) – with video

Schwarzenegger and DSK: When Powerful Men Cross Lines (ProPublica)

A Lesson for the Bigoted Right (London Review of Books) — commentary on Italy’s local elections last week

Bob and Roberta Smith: ‘It’s important to undermine and subvert things’ (Guardian)

A reporter’s view on the news industry’s broken commenting system (10,000 Words)

Hollywood shuns intelligent entertainment. The games industry doesn’t. Guess who’s winning? (Guardian)

La politica estera americana e la promozione della democrazia (Epistemes) – Italian only

India’s unwanted girls (BBC)

Teaching Happiness: The Prime Minister of Bhutan Takes on Education (The Solutions Journal)

The Netherlands To Enact Law That Ensures Net Neutrality (GigaOM)

Clip from Disney’s Winnie the Pooh movie, 2011 (above)

Eeyore: Literature’s archetypal outsider (Guardian) – if you love Eeyore, you’ll love this tribute

My Paris: Eric Hazan (Guardian) – video

Daniel Barenboim conducts ‘peace concert’ in Gaza (Classical-Music.com/BBC)

Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands (TedTALKS) – video

Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles” (TedTALKS) – video

Picking up the pieces (Aljazeera) – extraordinary story – video

Tunisia’s dissident blog stays true to form (Aljazeera)

The last laugh (Aljazeera) – video (above)

Just Like Us in Tribeca Film Festival, Comedy Night with Ahmed Ahmed – video

The Chernobyl that nobody wants (Eurozine) – translated from Belarusian version

Obama and the End of Al-Qaeda (Informed Comment)

Parigi, le tartarughe-elmetto contro la guerra (la Repubblica) – photo series of art exhibition

EU unveils plans to pay fishermen to catch plastic (Guardian)

WSJ remains largest circulation U.S. daily newspaper (Poynter.org)

The newsonomics of the new ABCs of journalism (Nieman Journalism Lab)

Columbia j-school’s highest honor goes to Al Jazeera English (Poynter.org)

Women on Boards: America Is Falling Behind (Harvard Business Review)

Why McKinsey Has Women’s Empowerment All Wrong (Huffington Post)

Women of Outstanding Achievement Awards 2011 – in pictures (Guardian)

SlutWalking gets rolling after cop’s loose talk about provocative clothing (Guardian)

Bob Dylan recently performed his first concert in China. On the program was “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” Here’s a performance from 1964 (video a bit slow to load). Lyrics here.

In Praise of Distraction (The New Yorker)

Photoshop, journalism, and forensics: Why skepticism may be the best filter for photojournalism (Nieman Journalism Lab)

Signs of Spring (The Atlantic) – photo series

Shirky: “La Rete ci cambia in meglio” (La Stampa)

American radical (Aljazeera) – documentary film, part I

Blogging for HuffPo Is Like Writing Open-Source Software (GigaOM)

The Advanced User Polity or: Why the EU is like a primeval forest (Ideas on Europe)

Italy’s Growing Multi-Media Influence Impacts Purchase Decisions (Nielsen)

Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi (The Guardian)