Newsletter 259
[1]Yes, You Are Overcooking Your Food
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Nathan Myhrvold et al | Scientific American | 13 March 2011
Government rules on food safety aren't science. They're guesswork and
cultural prejudice. How can raw-milk cheese be safe in France, but dangerous
in US? Why are restaurants allowed to serve beef undercooked, even raw—but
not pork?
[2]How New York Times Articles End
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Juli Weiner | Vanity Fair | 17 March 2011
Now that the Times has introduced a paywall limiting browsers to 20 free
articles per month, you won't want to waste your quota reading predictable
stories. Note that most Times stories are cliché-driven. Here's how they
always end
[3]Western Ideas Of Beauty
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Keith Miller | TLS | 16 March 2011
Delightfully intelligent, discursive review of books by Umberto Eco and
others on the nature of beauty, as revealed through art, desire, commerce,
religion, philosophy, sex. With glimpses of Germaine Greer, Pythagoras and
Il Sodoma
[4]10 Things I Didn’t Know About Google
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James Altucher | Altucher Confidential | 17 March 2011
Every one a gem. Among them: Google was originally going to be called
Backrub. The "I'm feeling lucky" button costs $110m a year in missed
advertising revenue, but focus groups show that people feel comfortable with
it, so it stays
[5]How Did We Ever Survive Donald Rumsfeld?
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Max Boot | New Republic | 17 March 2011
Blistering critique of former Defense Secretary's new memoir. Latest attack
from the right on past republican people and policies. Book is revelatory.
Shows "how a man with such a sterling resumé could be such a miserable
failure"
[6]Media Meltdown
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Wilson da Silva | Cosmos Magazine | 17 March 2011
Science editor berates media for portraying Fukushima as a nuclear
Armageddon; the quake was the real catastrophe. Press has been non-sensical
and inflammatory. After all "solar power is really just nuclear power from a
distance"
Today's FiveBooks Interview
[7]Diarmaid MacCulloch on =THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY=
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7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/diarmaid-macculloch-on-history-christianity
Distinguished historian of religion discourses on five works that explain
the birth and development of Christianity around the world, from Bede to
Baghdad [8]Continue reading…
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8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/diarmaid-macculloch-on-history-christianity
Topic
[9]Israel Palestine
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9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/israel-palestine-0
Browse interviews with Arab-Israeli specialists from Stephen Walt to Michael
Goldfarb, and read selection of articles and lectures that our specialists
have chosen to give an in-depth understanding of the conflict [10]Continue
reading…
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10. http://thebrowser.com/topics/israel-palestine-0
Book of the Day
[11]The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China
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11. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/political-logic-economic-reform-china-by-susan-shirk
-by Susan Shirk -
_Victor Shih says:_ "Shirk focuses on the role of interest-group politics in
economic decision-making in China." [12]More recommendations…
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12. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
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