This Week’s Links

Fortune has a fantastic article on influential bank analyst Meredith Whitney.

The Online Journalism Blog describes how influential bloggers, once they’ve tasted the bittersweet milk of a widespread audience, become more like run-of-the-mill journalists. Assuming journalism has some kind of standing commitment to objectivity, what’s wrong with being a journalist?

Discovery News talks about psychogenic outbreaks, like long fits of involuntary communal dancing. This was how people dealt with fear and anxiety before Prozac.

Scientific American explains how sleeping makes you smarter.

Chicago gets a conservative cafe. Strange, I didn’t know the other ones were considered that liberal. Does that make me a liberal?

[Business Pundit]