Newsletter 256
[1]Digital Africa
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1. http://b.rw/fcTDlJ
Jonathan Ledgard | Intelligent Life | 14 March 2011
Internet and social media spreading through Africa. Changing politics and
society. Google, Facebook, Nokia lead way. Main platform: smart-phones.
Broadband far dearer than in Europe due to protectionism, regulation,
corruption
[2]Hollywood Shadows
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2. http://b.rw/f7Fqx0
Dana Goodyear | New Yorker | 14 March 2011
Portrait of Barry Michels, Hollywood's favourite Jungian psychotherapist.
"Sometimes, with agents, Michels starts by prohibiting them from bringing
their BlackBerrys into their children’s rooms when they are putting them to
bed"
[3]Mexico's Drug War Comes To Monterrey
Links:
3. http://b.rw/fV1WgQ
Nick Miroff & William Booth | Washington Post | 14 March 2011
Story of how Mexico's third largest city, once peaceful and even a prospect
as a home for Major League Baseball, has become battle ground for rival drug
gangs. 267 murders in 2009, 828 in 2010. 144 already in January 2010
[4]Tsunamis: A Primer
Links:
4. http://b.rw/dMvNW0
Jeremy Bernstein | NYR Blog | 14 March 2011
On the physics of tidal waves. "The speed is proportional to the square root
of the ocean depth. When they get to the shallow water near shore they slow
down, but since the energy remains the same, the wave increases in height"
[5]The Fourth Wave
Links:
5. http://b.rw/fjS75q
Carl Gershman | New Republic | 14 March 2011
Big think-piece on Arab awakening. Offers "conclusive evidence" that
democracy still a universal value, despite recent setbacks in Russia,
central Asia. Internet makes unrest contagious. Cuba, even China, showing
signs of fragility
[6]Family Pet Power
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6. http://b.rw/h9lS9Y
Benedict Carey | NYT | 14 March 2011
"The nature of individual human-pet relationships varies widely, and only
now are scientists beginning to characterize those differences, and their
impact on the family". Pet owners: are you a dominionist, humanist or
protectionist?
Today's FiveBooks Interview
[7]Peter Atkins on =THE EMERGENCE OF UNDERSTANDING=
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-atkins-on-emergence-understanding
British chemist and prominent atheist discusses why he thinks science is the
only way to make sense of the world [8]Continue reading…
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/peter-atkins-on-emergence-understanding
Topic
[9]Russia and the FSU
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/russia
From the war in Chechnya to the murky depths of the KGB archive. Everything
you need to know (well, nearly everything) about Russia's past and
present [10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/topics/russia
Book of the Day
[11]How Terrorist Groups End
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/how-terrorist-groups-end-by-seth-g-jones-and-martin-libicky
by Seth G. Jones and
Martin Libicky
[12]David Cortright says: "Terrorist groups are not defeated by military
means, but rather through other processes – law enforcement and the
political process."
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-cortright-on-non-military-solutions-political-conflict
[13]More recommendations…
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13. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Browsings
@[14]tnr: Will the crisis in #[15]Japan ripple out to the global
economy? [16]bit.ly/hhneui
#[17]longreads #[18]browsings
[19]More user recommended #browsings…
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