What does Bill Gates read on vacation? Well, ABUNDANCE by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler for one. (link)

(Source: thegatesnotes.com)

Dr. Agus (author of The End of Illness) explains how inflammation can lead to an increased risk of cancer in a You Got AOL video.

Hear Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf speak on NPR about Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a leading moderate Muslim leader in the U.S., was once the lead cleric associated with the proposed Islamic community center some critics called the “ground zero mosque.” In late 2010, a debate over the location of the community center, now called the Cordoba House, became a contentious issue during the midterm elections.

During the debate, Rauf was called a “radical Muslim” and a “militant Islamist” by critics of the proposed community center. He was accused of sympathizing with the Sept. 11 hijackers and having connections to Hamas.

“For those who actually know or have worked with the imam, the descriptions are frighteningly — indeed, depressingly — unhinged from reality,” political reporter Sam Stein wrote last August for The Huffington Post. “The Feisal Abdul Rauf they know spent the past decade fighting against the very same cultural divisiveness and religious-based paranoia that currently surrounds him.” (read more)

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How a Book is Born.

Look at that! Bethenny Frankel is reading THE ICE PRINCESS by Camilla Lackberg on her ereader.

bibliolectors:

Digital book or books on paper / Libro digital o libro en papel? (ilustración de Gurbuz Dogan)

Yup. And this is a S&S book too. We love us some tumblr over here.

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Fuck Yeah Fuckyeah Blogs

No one really knows why the “Fuck Yeah X” blog phenomenon became so popular — nor why it’s still going very strong in terms of raw numbers. As for ultimate beginnings, conventional wisdom points to the pop-culture longevity of “America, Fuck Yeah” from the soundtrack to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 flick Team America: World Police, but there’s no real evidence beyond the circumstantial to support this conclusion. Only a few mainstream media outlets dared cover the trend due to the profanity in the name (may we suggest “fudge yeah” as a workaround?).

Coincidentally, the bloggers behind Fuck Yeah Menswear were yesterday (allegedly) prematurely revealed as Kevin Burrows and Lawrence Schlossman (the latter running the non-fuckyeah Tumblr How to Talk to Girls at Parties); they have a book releasing this fall. So on Tumblr, where did the fuckyeah blogs really come from, and what are people fuckyeahing about these days?

This was a while ago, but here’s a shot of Robert Draper behind-the-scenes with Jon Stewart. Robert talked about his new book DO NOT ASK WHAT GOOD WE DO on The Daily Show! Publicist Jill took this photo. (watch here)

Here’s Top Chef Carla Hall at S&S HQ, posing with the Free Press team after afternoon snacks and coffee. Her debut cookbook, Cooking With Love, is coming in November!

Read all about the first food critic, Craig Claiborne, via the NY Times. The book, Craig Claiborne: The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat by Thomas McNamee, is out this month.

ON May 18, 1962, readers of The New York Times woke up to learn that of all the Chinese restaurants in the city, “there is probably none with a finer kitchen” than Tien Tsin, in Harlem. The same article praised four other places to eat, including Gaston, on East 49th Street, which “may qualify as having one of the most inspired French kitchens in town,” and Marchi’s, on East 31st Street, “one of New York’s most unusual North Italian restaurants.”

The author of these judgments was Craig Claiborne, the newspaper’s food editor. He prefaced his article with a short note: “The following is a listing of New York restaurants that are recommended on the basis of varying merits. Such a listing will be published every Friday in The New York Times.”

And that is just what happened, first in what were called the women’s pages (“Food Fashions Family Furnishings”), and then, after 1976, in the Weekend section; by that time, the column was not a listing but a review of one or two restaurants. In 1997, with the invention of the Dining In/Dining Out section, it jumped to Wednesdays, where it still lives.

Some American writers had nibbled at the idea of professional restaurant criticism before this, including Claiborne, who had written one-off reviews of major new restaurants for The Times. But his first “Directory to Dining,” 50 years ago this month, marks the day when the country pulled up a chair and began to chow down. Within a few years, nearly every major newspaper had to have a Craig Claiborne of its own. Reading the critics, eating what they had recommended, and then bragging or complaining about it would become a national pastime. (Read more)