, June 13, 2014
Daily Bafflements
Smells like some good reads. / Photo by Brenda Clarke.
• Via Electric Literature and Compound Interest, the chemistry of book smells, explained.
• Today in Billionaires, and also Today in Startling Headlines, from The Christian Post: “9,000 Police Storm Church Looking for Billionaire South Korean Pastor Yoo Byung-Eun Accused of Role in Ferry Disaster That Killed 300.”
• Congratulations to Baffler blogger Kathleen Geier on a new project she’s working on for The Nation, launched this week—“The Curve” will investigate the intersection between feminism and economics in regular roundtable debates. “[F]eminists don’t talk enough about economics,” Geier and her colleagues write. “Too often, discussions about so-called culture problems like abortion access and domestic violence lack the economic context necessary to appreciate their true causes and repercussions.”
• Via Esquire, original “wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort is touring the country as a motivational speaker. Happy Friday!