¶ Matins: The Awl‘s Abe Sauer is in touch with some medical people who are running out of supplies in a town ten miles west of Port-au-Prince. A helicopter would be helpful.

¶ Lauds: The Online Photographer’s Michael Johnston is far too nice a guy to lay down the law about building a collection of pictures, but, with a little help from his commentariat, he’s taking a stab or two at it. Here, at least, is what a collection is not:

¶ Prime: Well, that didn’t take long: Felix Salmon contests Malcolm Gladwell’s assertion that John Paulson’s investment strategy was risk-averse.

¶ Tierce: A cognitive psychology study of flattery: if it makes you feel good about yourself, no matter how resistant you think you are to its explicit claims, it will work. (Scientific American; via Arts Journal)

¶ Sext: Edan Lepucki, of The Millions, purges her library.

¶ Nones: In case you thought that bananas are an innocent pleasure, think again: Rebecca Cohen, at Science Creative Quarterly, lays out the very high costs of making bananas cheap. (via The Morning News)

¶ Vespers: In the course of a tagging match last night, we encountered a dandy Web log: Latin Poetry Podcast. Christopher Francese, an associate professor at Dickinson, talks about his selection, sketches a translation, and then reads aloud. We haven’t looked into where he got his accent, but it sounds weirdly right, and quite unlike the Oxford-don recordings that used to come out on Caedmon LPs.

¶ Compline: Even Justin Smith has made a donation to Yéle Haiti. So have we! So ought you! And, in the end, you have to love Pat Roberton, doncha?

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