what I read today

I read a fair amount at work every day, so maybe it's worth posting recommendations to what may/may-not be worth your time. Or maybe not.

Probably not. But lets try it out for a day or two and see.

Long Night at Today (New York Magazine) - I have never watched the Today Show, but this feature about Ann Curry's departure and the show's recent decline is interesting. (This clip of Ann Curry's last day as an anchor goes with the story.) The cutthroat competition between the networks and their on-air personalities is remarkable (and frightening):

When Robin Roberts left Good Morning America a month later to get treatment for MDS, Curry asked NBC if she could tweet a note of sympathy for the ABC co-host. NBC said no, afraid she was trying to aid the enemy. In late July, when Curry was assigned to cover the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, she refused to appear on the air with Guthrie, believing Bell was trying to exploit the event for image repair.

Unreal.

I loved the picture of Lauer before reading the article, and it's even better after reading it.


The New Yorker updates its longreads on Mondays, so I tend to start the week there (which is why todays' articles will be heavily New Yorker skewed):

Bring Up the Bodies - (New Yorker) - About the attempts to prosecute the Kosovo Liberation Army's leaders for war crimes. The New Yorker could publish 5,000 words about a fart and I'd probably tell you it's worth reading. That said, this one's worth reading.

Shorter Stuff:

Can Science Lead to Faith - (New Yorker) - I'm oversimplifying this to the extreme (and probably incorrectly) but some scientists suggest there's so much we don't know about the universe that it's possible a spiritual/divine/something-we-can't-imagine is responsible for the forces of nature. And I like that after reading it I sent the following two texts to Connors:

First text:

Quick Question:

Second text:

Why does the universe exist?

Coincidentally, my mom e-mailed me this short TED talk today that shows a baby from conception to birth while the speaker marvels at it.

Sexual Mores and Amanda Knox - (New Yorker) - This is the first I've read about Amanda Knox, and it doesn't give many details about her alleged crime, but I've also been reading a fair amount about the post-feminist---or as this article calls it: the post-post-femnist---societal/sexual quandary, so the subheading caught my attention. This supplements that discussion, slightly.

Fanalytics: Beyond 42 - (Baseball HQ) - great tweet from it's author (Ron Shandler)

The Jason Collins story is newsworthy in its potential for this type of news to eventually become un-newsworthy:

Nothing else worth mentioning.

Oh, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs (Chuck Klosterman) - (during my commute) - Klosterman at his best is hilarious and smart and thought provoking, but at his worst he's a guy getting baked and deconstructing popular art to annoying degrees. It's partially my fault, I should skip the essays on subjects I'm not familiar with, but some of those are still pretty good, so I get stuck reading some stinkers as well. I'll reserve judgement until I've read them all.


Ok, after proofreading this post, it's certainly not worth doing every day. But maybe a best-of every week wouldn't be a bad idea