THE FEED: AUGUST 2ND

What we're reading:

Judging a girl by her book
(Slate): Mark Oppenheimer misses being able to tell what people are reading

What's the point of the Booker, anyway?
(Guardian): Debating the merits of the Booker longlist

Goodbye filaments
(Boston Globe): An obituary for the incandescent bulb

Today's quote:

"A book on Virginia Woolf could be a 30-page article. Somebody did a count of how many publications had been written on Virginia Woolf in the past 15 years. The answer is several thousand. Really? Who needs this? But it's awfully difficult to say, 'Here's knowledge we don't need!' It sounds like book burning, doesn't it?"

~ Andrew Hacker, "What's Wrong With the American University System" (Atlantic)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com