FiveBooks Newsletter 110
Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus
a pick of the best content on The Browser.
[1]FiveBooks weekly newsletter: Links to all our original FiveBooks
interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The
Browser.
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
FiveBooks at The Browser
After last week's dip into Olympic history, we rounded off the month
with interviews with the biographer of Evelyn Waugh, Selina Hastings,
who told us about the "Bright Young Things" of the 1920s, and the
novelist Will Self, who revealed some of the books that hold meaning
for him. Throughout August, we'll be revisiting some of our favourite
interviews from the past two years. Here, to kick things off, are the
thoroughly engaging statistician, David Spiegelhalter, and the
evolutionary biologist, Jerry Coyne.
FiveBooks News
[5]Selina Hastings on Evelyn Waugh and the Bright Young Things
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/selina-hastings-on-evelyn-waugh-and-bright-young-things
Monday July 30
The biographer explores the decadence of the young and rich in 1920s
London, and tells us about Evelyn Waugh’s rebellious youth, bullying
disposition and later breakdown – as well as just how much (and early)
he drank [6]Continue reading…
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/selina-hastings-on-evelyn-waugh-and-bright-young-things
[7]Will Self on Influences
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-self-on-influences
Tuesday July 31
Conventional prose fiction falls short of the mark, says the English
author, who tells us about his modernist novel Umbrella, what the real
character of London is, and why he can’t stand the Olympics [8]Continue
reading…
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/will-self-on-influences
[9]David Spiegelhalter on Statistics and Risk
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
Sunday September 25
Every statistic is the result of someone’s work, and we’d do well to
ask ourselves why it was created. That way, says the statistician, we
have a better chance of working out when dangers are being overstated
and data misused [10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
[11]Jerry Coyne on Evolution
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jerry-coyne-on-evolution
Friday August 3
The evolutionary biologist tells us why Darwin is still essential
reading and sifts the vast amount of more recent writing on evolution
for books that are both inspiring to scientists and accessible to
general readers [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jerry-coyne-on-evolution
[13]Plasenzuela's Dirty Secrets
Links:
13. http://b.rw/MAMb39
Guillermo Abril | El País | 30 July 2012
Inside Spain's most corrupt village. "European, state, and regional
funding has all disappeared without trace. Projects that never existed;
workers that never worked; taxes imposed on salaries that were never
passed on to the state" [14]More like this
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/best
Featured Topic
[15]Population and Resources
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Will humans run out of natural resources? Is population growth a danger
to society? Or will human innovation conquer? You decide [16]Read on
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
[17]The 1948 Olympics by Bob Phillips
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/1948-olympics-by-bob-phillips
[18]David Runciman says: “It’s worth reading just for the details about
how austere the 1948 Games were. In all sorts of different ways, what
we call austerity now doesn’t compare” [19]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
18.
19. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[20]BJ Fogg: Psychology of Persuasion
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/bj-fogg-psychology-persuasion
How to get what you want. “Put hot triggers in the path of motivated
people.” [21]More videos
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[22]J.G. Ballard, on imagination
Links:
22. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2929/the-art-of-fiction-no-85-j-g-ballard
"Imagination is the shortest route between any two conceivable
points"
[23]More quotes
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
Reader Recommendations
@[24]maisonneuvemag 17 percent of us believe we’re tone deaf, but only
4 percent are. Why you're a better singer than you think:
[25]t.co/ZsLtLdS2 [26]#browsings [27]More like this
Links:
24. http://twitter.com/maisonneuvemag
25. http://t.co/ZsLtLdS2
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings