Field Notes: Cities, China, Cowell, Candy Brothers, etc.

• China reveals aircraft carrier plans (Source)
• Man in the News: Simon Cowell (Source)
• Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s man behind Mario (Source)
• Monopoly with the FT: Candy Brothers (Source)
• John McPhee on the Importance of the Lead (Source)
• Physicist Geoffrey West’s quest for a mathematical explanation of cities (Source)
• Why doing a Ph.D. is even more of a waste of time than it used to be (Source)

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