Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home FROM Bloomberg with assistance from David Ramli, and Lulu Yilun Chen

Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet FROM Reason.com [10 years ago]

The Fragile Generation BY Lenore Skenazy & Jonathan Haidt FROM Reason.com

Sri Lanka the latest victim of China’s debt-trap diplomacy By Brahma Chellaney FROM Asia Times

"This month, Sri Lanka, unable to pay the onerous debt to China it has accumulated, formally handed over its strategically located Hambantota port to the Asian giant."

WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment BOOK Reviewed By Robert Wright By ANTONIO DAMASIO FROM The New York Times

Why There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays By Frank T. McAndrew FROM LiveScience

Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do BY Fareed Zakaria FROM The Washington Post

Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens By Rachel Botsman FROM Wire

Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do BY Fareed Zakaria FROM The Washington Post

The Best Way to Spur Growth? Help the Poor, Not the Rich by Peter Coy FROM BloombergBusinessweek

The Trump Tax Plan Is Government as Usual BY Nick Gillespie & Todd Krainin FROM Reason.com

Bill Gates and China partner on world-first nuclear technology BY Cole Latimer FROM Sydney Morning Herald

"The reactor could be fuelled with natural uranium, depleted uranium or even spent nuclear fuel (which is mainly depleted uranium), but the reactor must be started with enriched uranium. Thus, the Travelling Wave Reactor would have the potential to use less nuclear fuel and produce less nuclear waste than the light water reactors that dominate today's nuclear fleet" 

"It is also safer as spent fuels, such as depleted uranium, from other reactor types could be recycled without separating out plutonium, and could operate without refuelling for up to 40 years."

Jonathan joins an Indian company. [funny video]

What Makes Us Happy? by Joshua Wolf Shenk FROM The Atlantic

I couldn't get enough of the Harvard study, so here is a much more detailed examination of the "most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history."

"Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George Vaillant."

After Studying the Lives of 724 Men for 79 Years, Harvard Reveals the 1 Biggest Secret to Success and Happiness by Dana Severson FROM Inc.

Facebook’s co-founder blasts social media: “It literally changes your relationship with society” BY Matthew Rozsa FROM Salon

What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer By MAX FISHER and JOSH KELLER FROM The New York Times

Too bad it doesn't get into the political doctrines underpinning the belief in the US,  Mexico and Guatemala that "people have an inherent right to own guns."

The surprising decline in violence TED Talk BY Steven Pinker

100 years on: The Balfour Declaration explained by Zena Tahhan FROM Al Jazeera

Walls and Militarized Police: How Israel Is Exporting Its Occupation to the US by Ramzy Baroud FROM Antiwar.org