Field Notes: Smiths, Trees, China, Android, Rockets, Thiel, Chile, etc.

• The night The Smiths changed modern music (Curious)
• Chancellor: China has all the characteristics of a great bubble (FT)
• The great oak of Pasadena (LAT)
• The backstory of Brazil’s hit “poorism” flick “Elite Squad 2″ (Newsweek)
• China’s housing market reaches U.S./Japan bubble levels (Bloomberg)
• Why Android Honeycomb should have Apple scared (Fortune)
• What rockets can teach us about innovation (Slate)
• Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical (BusinessWeek)
• Weight of the world (WashPost)
• 36 Hours in Santiago, Chile (NYT)
• The Great Panic of 2015 (Slate)
• Replacing all federal tax revenues with national retail sales tax might require 50% rate (Brookings)

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