Day: February 23, 2013

Some interesting off beat reads for the weekend:

Meet the world’s top NBA gambler (ESPN)

Crime:The Miami heist (Businessweek)

The ladies sing the blues (Caravan)

Another one from Ketan Parekh’s 10 stocks self destructs (Moneylife)

How is sharing and renting creating a new economy in the West (ForbesIndia)

Google’s new built-from-scratch Googleplex (VanityFair)

Syria: The death of a country (Economist)

The shocking savagery of America’s early history (Smithsonian)

14 things successful people do on weekends (Forbes)

America’s awful job market for Ph.D’s (Atlantic)

The 50 most scandalous dresses in history (NYMag)

Movie Review:Murder 3 (VigilIdiot)

Travelogue: Sariska Tiger Reserve and Siliserh lake (Ghumakkar)

Fixing Car vibrations (TeamBHP)

Prison and the poverty trap (NYTimes)

The extraordinary science of addictive junk food (NYTimes)

Spoof:Why I don’t want Narendra Modi to be PM (UnrealTimes)

The cold Arab spring (Playboy)

All you need to know about the Indian Mujahideen (IndiaToday)

Obituary:Zhuang Zedong (Economist)