FiveBooks Newsletter 123
Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The Browser.
FiveBooks weekly newsletter: Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The Browser.
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Ilan Kelman on Disaster Diplomacy
Friday November 2
The perception that disasters are isolated events beyond our control is simply not true; we – governments and others – have a greater role in creating them than we wish to acknowledge, says the disaster research expert Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ilan-kelman-on-disaster-diplomacy)
Keith Jeffery on the Secret Service
Thursday November 1
The author of a history of MI6 tells us about the evolution of the secret intelligence services, their representation in fiction, and the man Fleming may have had in mind when he created James Bond Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/professor-keith-jeffery-on-secret-service)
Helene Guldberg on Man and Ape
Wednesday October 31
It's fashionable today to liken humans to animals but the developmental psychologist says it's more interesting to study the ways in which we're remarkably different from other creatures Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/helene-guldberg-on-man-and-ape)
Simon Baron-Cohen on Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Tuesday October 30
The head of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University tells us about myths surrounding autism and Asperger's, and what inspired his own research into the subject Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-baron-cohen-on-autism-and-asperger-syndrome)
Jonathan Keates on Great Letter Writers
Monday October 29
Queen Victoria was anything but Victorian and Lord Byron was more vulnerable than we think, says writer Jonathan Keates – who considers emails a poor substitute for a hand-written correspondence
Continue reading… (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-keates-on-great-letter-writers)
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Best of the Moment
The Island Where People Forget To Die
Dan Buettner | NYT | 24 October 2012
The Greek island of Ikaria, about 30 miles off the Turkish coast, has an astonishing number of very old people. In good health too. How do they do it? Buettner, who studies longevity, goes to investigate More like this (http://thebrowser.com/best)
Featured Topic
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Paying for the US Election
How much is Romney vs Obama 2012 going to cost? Who's paying? And what do they expect in return? Read on (http://thebrowser.com/reports/paying-election)
Book of the Week
Book of the Day
The Natural by Bernard Malamud and Kevin Baker
Michael Carlson says (http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-carlson-on-baseball-novels) : “A perfect, mythic take on baseball in which he plays with the myth of the Fisher King and the Holy Grail” FiveBooks Archive (http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks)
Video of the Week
Love And Dashi
(http://thebrowser.com/videos/love-and-dashi)
Two weeks of Japanese food compressed into three minutes More videos (http://thebrowser.com/videos)
Quote of the Week
John Kenneth Galbraith, on consistency (http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/10/some-advice-from-jeff-bezos)
"Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof"
More quotes (http://thebrowser.com/quotations)
Reader Recommendations
@joespring Edit that goes w/ @BusinessWeek cover. (@BradWieners, you won't be the last to tweet.) t.co/kz81evbB #longform #longreads #browsings (https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings) More like this (http://thebrowser.com/browsings)