Traces of Oliver

Les Untergunther

Apparently, these are the guys who restored the clock of the Paris Panthéon. More info; thanks to Kieran Healy.

New Yorker podcasts

B. discovered the "New Yorker" magazine podcasts this morning, we listened to a few together.

Christian Science Monitor Daily Article

The Christian Science Monitor is not a religious periodical, it's a "normal" newspaper published by a church. On request of its founder, however, one religious article is published in the paper every day. I've known this for a long time but, strangely, never bothered to read such a daily article. Today I stumbled on the 30 November article - pretty good stuff! Definitely worth reading on a (semi-)regular basis, and worth circulating among friends.

Die Grünen und die Kirche

Ein Artikel in der "Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung": Durchs Klösterle in die Politik.

The publisher who rules Japan

The Economist has a story about Tsuneo Watanabe, the chairman of Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest newspaper. Apparently, he's the guy who pulls the strings in Japanese politics. A fascinating, if depressing, story of price-fixing, corruption and political farce.

Treeless Christian Science Monitor

Have I mentioned that the Christian Science Monitor is one of the best newspapers? It's an excellent source of information, objective not ideological, providing detailed analysis and background information, with a keen interest in the people who are affected by the great global events and developments. This kind of reporting is hard to find in other newspapers.

The internet edition is excellent, not least because it provides links to both related articles and original material.

I've subscribed to their "treeless" edition too - the newspaper as it is printed, but as a PDF. So I get the whole paper in the original layout, and I get it a day before the print edition is available.

Also interesting: the history of the paper, and who owns it.