ESPNW, on what we can learn from the World Cup:
There will be no questioning the heart and teamwork of Japan or the U.S. Both displayed it clearly, and maybe it serves as a shining lesson for future teams: Park the drama and play like a team.

At TEDGlobal last week, Paul Zak, a "neuroeconomist" and professor at Claremont Graduate University, explained his recommendation for "nonchemical happiness:
"I recommend 8 hugs a day."

M. Molly Backes, blogger, author and assistant director of StoryStudio, Chicago's center for writing, on advice for parents of an aspiring author:
Never take her writing personally or assume it has anything to do with you, even if she only writes stories about dead mothers and orphans.

Ken Auletta, in a New Yorker profile about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg:
Sandberg says that she had an "Aha!" moment in 2005, when Pattie Sellers, an editor at large at Fortune, invited her to the magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit...[Sandberg] thought the title was embarrassing.... Sellers recalls, "I told her ...What's wrong with owning your power?"