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		<title>The Bomb That Almost Killed Hitler &#124; Anonymous &#124; National Archives &#124; 23rd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://filestore.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/fo-1093-288.pdf</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[From newly-released British Government WW2 papers (PDF). Transcript of conversation between two Nazi officers, one of whom interrogated Georg Elser, author of a 1939 Munich bombing meant to kill Hitler. &#8220;For six months the man spent every night in the &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/2919/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[From newly-released British Government WW2 papers (PDF). Transcript of conversation between two Nazi officers, one of whom interrogated Georg Elser, author of a 1939 Munich bombing meant to kill Hitler. &#8220;For six months the man spent every night in the beer cellar. I&#8217;ve never seen such an ingeniously constructed infernal machine. The man was a genius. That the Fuehrer got away with his life is nothing short of a miracle&#8221;    ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Gut-Wrenching Science &#124; Mary Roach &#124; Smithsonian &#124; 22nd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Gut-Wrenching-Science-Behind-the-Worlds-Hottest-Peppers-208350211.html?c=y&amp;story=fullstory#Burning-Desire-peppers-1.jpg</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Roach</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Report from pepper-eating contest in Nagaland, India, home of world&#8217;s hottest chillies. Here&#8217;s what happens to a man who eats five: &#8220;Zozam rolls onto his back, arms splayed and palms up. He’s making sounds that are hard to transcribe. Mostly &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/2910/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Report from pepper-eating contest in Nagaland, India, home of world&#8217;s hottest chillies. Here&#8217;s what happens to a man who eats five: &#8220;Zozam rolls onto his back, arms splayed and palms up. He’s making sounds that are hard to transcribe. Mostly vowels. After a minute he rolls back onto his side and raises his head to retch. A doctor prepares a hypodermic of dicyclomine&#8221;. The winner eats 14, and doesn&#8217;t feel too well either  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>I Saw The Best Taxes Of My Generation &#124; Gary Silverman &#124; Financial Times &#124; 22nd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/56f7c1c4-c216-11e2-8992-00144feab7de.html#axzz2U8naSbb9</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Silverman</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[An inspired howl against the complexity of the American tax system. Millions of words. A labyrinth. &#8220;It is just not healthy for so many Americans to spend so much of their lives being so furtive&#8221;. Compare the Hong Kong system: &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/i-saw-the-best-taxes-of-my-generation/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[An inspired howl against the complexity of the American tax system. Millions of words. A labyrinth. &#8220;It is just not healthy for so many Americans to spend so much of their lives being so furtive&#8221;. Compare the Hong Kong system: &#8220;The authorities would mail you a letter telling you to pay 15 per cent of your salary and you would send them a cheque for the money. The taxman got his money and you had the rest of your day&#8221; (Metered paywall)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jerry Brown&#8217;s Political Reboot &#124; James Fallows &#124; The Atlantic &#124; 22nd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/the-fixer/309324/</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Fallows</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Big profile of Jerry Brown, and of the state of California. He comes out of it well — modest, inquiring, a fixer. The state is, as it were, another story. &#8220;What is weakest about America — the squabbling paralysis of &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/jerry-browns-political-reboot/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Big profile of Jerry Brown, and of the state of California. He comes out of it well — modest, inquiring, a fixer. The state is, as it were, another story. &#8220;What is weakest about America — the squabbling paralysis of the governing structures, the relentless pressure on the middle class, the steady decline of public schools, roads, parks and the simultaneous rise of the public-security state — is weaker and worse in California&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Curse Of Reading &#124; Ian Crouch &#124; New Yorker &#124; 22nd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/the-curse-of-reading-and-forgetting.html</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Crouch</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[You too, eh? You read a book, and, a couple of years later, you&#8217;ve not only forgotten the substance of the story, but even the act of having read it. It&#8217;s not that I thought I was the only one; &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/the-curse-of-reading/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[You too, eh? You read a book, and, a couple of years later, you&#8217;ve not only forgotten the substance of the story, but even the act of having read it. It&#8217;s not that I thought I was the only one; but I thought I was especially unretentive. Now I have my benchmark. &#8220;The spines look familiar. But for the most part, the assembled books, and the hundreds of others that I’ve read and discarded represent a vast catalog of forgetting&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New Autistic Way Of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley &#124; Temple Grandin &#124; Wired &#124; 23rd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/silicon-valley-coders-and-autism-and-asperbergers-maybe-its-a-new-kind-of-design-thinking/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Temple Grandin</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Book extract. Argues that we have three modes of thinking — in pictures, in words, in patterns. In tech, you need all three, and you need a balance between them, but above all you need the pattern thinking. That&#8217;s what &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/new-autistic-way-of-thinking-powers-silicon-valley/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Book extract. Argues that we have three modes of thinking — in pictures, in words, in patterns. In tech, you need all three, and you need a balance between them, but above all you need the pattern thinking. That&#8217;s what chess players have. What Steve Jobs had. What the best coders have. And also what people with autism often have. Seeing patterns helps you to grasp structures and spot mistakes quickly]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Game Hunting In England’s Premier League &#124; Sarah Lyall &#124; New York Times &#124; 21st May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/sports/soccer/a-guide-to-attending-a-premier-league-game.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=0&amp;hpw&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Lyall</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[How to attend (if not necessarily enjoy) a British football match. Brits: Cut out and keep for foreign visitors. &#8220;It will be noisier than you are used to. Emotions will be higher than they are at home. The food will &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/game-hunting-in-englands-premier-league/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[How to attend (if not necessarily enjoy) a British football match. Brits: Cut out and keep for foreign visitors. &#8220;It will be noisier than you are used to. Emotions will be higher than they are at home. The food will be awful. People will be drunk. The weather will be bad. Many of the supporters will not appear to be having fun, and will be expressing their feelings in novel combinations of swear words&#8221; (Metered paywall)]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jacques Callot&#8217;s Line Sublime &#124; Jed Perl &#124; New Republic &#124; 23rd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113093/jacques-callot-artist-who-brought-printmaking-its-heights</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jed Perl</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Perl is so skilled at deriding bad art that I sometimes forget how well he writes of art he loves. As here. &#8220;Rarely have life’s sweetness and bitterness been embraced with more evenhanded genius than in the work of Jacques &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/jacques-callots-line-sublime/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Perl is so skilled at deriding bad art that I sometimes forget how well he writes of art he loves. As here. &#8220;Rarely have life’s sweetness and bitterness been embraced with more evenhanded genius than in the work of Jacques Callot. The seventeenth-century French printmaker finds an ethics of vision—a way of grappling with whatever the world has to offer—in the indomitable force and lucidity of his line&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Time Regained &#124; James Gleick &#124; New York Review Of Books &#124; 22nd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/06/time-regained/?pagination=false</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Gleick</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Review of Time Reborn, by Lee Smolin. &#8220;His argument from science and history is as provocative, original, and unsettling as any I’ve read in years. It turns upside-down the now standard view of Wells, Minkowski, and Einstein. It contravenes our &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/time-regained/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Review of <em>Time Reborn</em>, by Lee Smolin. &#8220;His argument from science and history is as provocative, original, and unsettling as any I’ve read in years. It turns upside-down the now standard view of Wells, Minkowski, and Einstein. It contravenes our intellectual inheritance from Newton and, for that matter, Plato, and it will ring false to many of Smolin’s contemporaries in theoretical physics.&#8221; Sounds promising, no?]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Woolwich Attack: First-Person Account &#124; Conal Urquhart &#124; Guardian &#124; 22nd May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/22/woolwich-first-person-account</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conal Urquhart</dc:creator>
		
		<description><![CDATA[Really rather amazing account of London killing from first-aider who happened to be passing on a bus, saw the aftermath, tried to help the victim, engaged the attackers in conversation until police arrived, then got back on her bus. &#8220;At &#8230; <a href="http://thebrowser.com/link/woolwich-attack-first-person-account/">Read more &#8594;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Really rather amazing account of London killing from first-aider who happened to be passing on a bus, saw the aftermath, tried to help the victim, engaged the attackers in conversation until police arrived, then got back on her bus. &#8220;At first there was no blood by the body but as I talked to the man it began to flow which worried me because blood needs a beating heart to flow. But I didn&#8217;t want to annoy the man by going back to the body&#8221;]]></content:encoded>
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