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Today's Audible Daily Deal looks like a good one for those seeking worldly wisdom ($4.95): Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc [I'm also nearly finished with a similar book, Stuff Matters, which was a Bill Gates recommendation and is a worthwhile read or listen. And one more similar one in my listening queue is The Disappearing Spoon.]

Jason Zweig on the Fireside Markets podcast (LINK)

Related book: The Devil's Financial Dictionary

1994 article from Jason Zweig on Phil Carret: Buy ‘em Cheap and Hold ‘em (LINK)

Related book: A Money Mind at 90

The new Hardcore History episode is available (LINK)

Often relegated to the role of slavish cannon fodder for Sparta’s spears, the Achaemenid Persian empire had a glorious heritage. Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen.

Metaphors and Mental Models: The Key to Understanding (LINK)

Heuermann Lecture: Howard G. Buffett and Howard W. Buffett (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK)

Related book: 40 Chances

Back to the Future: A 100x Perspective - by Chris Mayer (LINK)

Related book: 100 Baggers

Ian Morris' lecture at the LSE (audio) (LINK)

In the last 50 years, knowledge of archaeology, anthropology, history, evolution, genetics and linguistics has exploded. A new synthesis of history is emerging, suggesting that people are all much the same and the societies we create all develop in much the same ways. What varies is the places in which societies develop. Biology and geography have driven a 150,000-year story of cooperation and competition. By projecting forward the patterns of the past and the forces that disrupt them, we can begin to see where the 21st century might take us.

Steven Johnson lays out the coming arms race in superintelligence (LINK)

Related book: Superintelligence

The Invention of Pad Thai (LINK)

A Genomics Revolution: Evolution by Natural Selection to Evolution by Intelligent Direction (LINK)

Book of the day: Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth

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Jason Zweig on WealthTrack (video) (LINK) Related book: The Devil's Financial DictionaryEven Michael Lewis Was Surprised Hollywood Bet on The Big Short [H/T Linc] (LINK) Related book: The Big ShortWhy and how do Munger and Buffett...

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Seth Klarman’s Presentation To Bruce Greenwald’s 2010 CBS Class (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Tren Griffin joins the a16z Podcast to talk about his book on Charlie Munger (LINK) Related link: A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger...

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Sanjay Bakshi with more thoughts on Nestlé and Maggi (LINK) The Anti-Poverty Experiment - by Jason Zweig (LINK) Daphne Koller on the Future of Online Education [H/T Matt] (LINK) A Dozen Things Learned from Jim Goetz about Business, Startups and Venture...

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America’s Whiskey: A History (LINK) Related book: Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s WhiskeyZinc traders dig in as price rebounds (LINK) China Shifts Monetary Policy Out of Neutral As Economy Slows (LINK) Hank Paulson talks about...

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Interview In VII with Larry Pitkowsky and Keith Trauner of the GoodHaven Fund (LINK) Tom Murphy: The man who taught Warren Buffett how to manage a company [H/T Phil] (LINK) Related books: Berkshire Beyond Buffett, The OutsidersA Bearish Hedge Fund...

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