THE FEED: SEP 3RD

What we're reading:

Brain exercises
(Discovery News): So much for avoiding dementia. Good lord, we're damned

Online freedom in Russia
(Spiegel Online): Russians in search of uncensored news are damned, too

"Chick lit" be damned
(Guardian): Lionel Shriver makes a compelling case that a "female novelist would never enjoy a Franzen-scale frenzy of adulation in America"

Today's quote:

"When I got here four years ago, the only live venue in Shanghai was Yuyintang, which had started four months earlier [tacked on] the side of Ikea. It was just a shed, with a room about twice the size of my office with no fridge. They served beer out of a warm bucket... That was the only live venue in a city of 20-odd million people"

~ Archie Hamilton, a music promoter in China, on the country's fledgling music scene; "China Rocks" (Telegraph)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com