Article Dump 3

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Some things in my electronic collection box:

1. Beaten to the Punchline by Germaine Greer: What's holding women back in comedy?
   
   
2. The Quiet Coup by Simon Johnson: Former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund says the finance industry has effectively captured the US government
   
   
3. Who's Buried in Cleopatra's Tomb? by Stacy Schiff: Women, power and myth
   
   
4. Born Believers: How your brain creates God by Michael Brooks: Is religious belief hardwired?
   

Read if you like.

Two things in my mental collection box:

1. When colleagues/fellow students/friends are self-centred and emotionally greedy after a long day: I only accept compliments or presents after 10pm. (A student here gave me this to use in future and I like it.)
   
   
2. When people ask you what you're doing next and you have neither the answer nor the energy to come up with a grand plan to satisfy them (as you might have done at some earlier stage): I understand you need my certainty to make yourself feel reassured, but I just can't provide you with that right now.

Use if you like.