Julian Rubinstein's Blog, page 2

I was blown away by this infographic video on wealth...

I was blown away by this infographic video on wealth distribution when it came out, and on second watching, I am still blown away. One stat: bottom 80 percent (80!) has 7 percent of wealth in the U.S. (Top 1 percent: 40.) If you haven’t watched this yet, save it and watch later, great use of infographics, and … well, see you in the gutter.

Happy 46th B-day, Attila Ambrus! (w/ prison release video)

Attila Ambrus is 46 years old today, and a free man. To celebrate the day, I figured I’d post...

onlyunity:A Roma boy collects cans outside of the stadium at...

onlyunity:

A Roma boy collects cans outside of the stadium at the Guca Music Festival in Guca, Serbia. August, 2010.

Looking back at Maroon Bells, Aspen, from Echo Lake, in the...

Looking back at Maroon Bells, Aspen, from Echo Lake, in the shadow of the bells. #aspen #maroonbells

Operation Easter by Julian Rubinstein from the New Yorker

Operation Easter by Julian Rubinstein from the New Yorker: The hunt for illegal egg...

from the sea plane, off the coast of Tofino, Vancouver Island,...

from the sea plane, off the coast of Tofino, Vancouver Island, bc

Operation Easter, from the New Yorker

newyorker:

Mark Thomas (left) and Guy Shorrock keep watch on Britain’s egg obsessives. “These are not normal criminals,” Shorrock says. Photograph by Richard Barnes.

In this week’s issue, Julian Rubinstein goes inside England’s secretive network of people obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds, and the investigators who are trying to catch them:
http://nyr.kr/13FQbwt

Julian in this week's New Yorker

I have a new story in this week's New Yorker (July 22, 2013) about an underground network of men obsessed with stealing the eggs of rare birds, and the national police operation designed to stop them.

Operation Easter:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/20...

Happy summer,
-julian

PS: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is on sale now at Amazon for $5.60! ("This is a grand thriller, perhaps the first of a genre." --Writer and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu)

Who is this masked man and why is he banned from entering...

Who is this masked man and why is he banned from entering Scotland during the birding season for life? Read about it in this week’s issue of The New Yorker: Operation Easter.

Red Hook, May 8, 2013. Good thing I don’t need my car.

Red Hook, May 8, 2013. Good thing I don’t need my car.