Synopsis of Articles Read Throughout Time

I often find myself drawn to reading articles of varied topics, but sometimes at a loss to recall the content of most. Here is a living collection of links, ideas, and thoughts of the articles and interests of my life. I hope to bring some organization to the chaos that is my reading habit.

Aug 20, 2014:

1. $2.5 billion dollar shoe box of LSD, and the value of various objects: http://what-if.xkcd.com/108/
• De Beers fixed the prices of diamonds for over 60 years to gain a ridiculous monopoly. People fought back and won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers_Diamonds_Antitrust_Litigation
2. Metabolites are injected to see their effect of pain/fatigue on muscles - turns out 'going lactic' during intense workouts is more complicated than just lactic acid: http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/what-causes-muscle-pain-during-hard-exercise
3. SalesForce is a highly innovative company with a kickass CEO named Mark Benioff. He's a visionary leader who doesn't refer to their product as a CRM, but as a Utility, like water or electricity. This article outlines Salesforce's innovation techniques: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/08/20/marc-benioffs-innovation-secret/
4. The fastest man-hole cover ever was the result of an underground nuclear explosion. It was ejected from earth at 66km/s, which is awesome and hilarious at the same time. http://qr.ae/5HeEY
5. Elon Musk is my hero, and a huge inspiration to me. This outlines his dark times and bright future in a 13 minute chunk of a 60 minute interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvz1kWLMGm4

Aug 21, 2014:

1. Was the iPhone 5C the biggest flop in Apple history? I found this title intriguing given that I didn't know the 5C was even considered a flop. Here's the Quora answer to this question: http://www.quora.com/Was-making-the-iPhone-5C-one-of-Apples-biggest-flop-product-ideas
   Here's a statistics blog highlighting the number of units sold of each type: http://www.statisticbrain.com/iphone-5-sales-statistics/ It's not a flop (I'd be proud of selling 2.6million anything), but it's not the raging success it was hoped to be.
• The previous post opened me up to the cool site http://www.statisticbrain.com/ Great place for random stats and interesting facts.
2. Alan Watts can be heard quoted in many Youtube videos (even the occasional electronic song), but to hear his stream of thoughts in his Conversations with Myself series is quite something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aufuwMiKmE This came up after telling a coworker about Richard Feynman.

September 5, 2014

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/diane-francis/chinese-money-laundering_b_5664319.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-business - billions of dollars leave China undetected though corrupt officials and shady businessmen, happening since 2002.