Newsletter 271
[1]On Libya’s Revolutionary Road
Links:
1. http://b.rw/e1o4LI
Robert Worth | NYT Magazine | 30 March 2011
Fine reporting and interviews from the rebel side of the war. "All across
eastern Libya, the collapse of Qaddafi’s regime exposed an unknown world of
walled military compounds and torture rooms belonging to the Leader and his
gang" [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/libya’s-revolutionary-road
[3]Lady In Waiting
Links:
3. http://b.rw/h2cT8b
Stephen Castle | Foreign Policy | 31 March 2011
18 months after the Lisbon Treaty created EU's foreign policy arm, chief
Catherine Ashton remains on the political sidelines both within Europe and
globally. European foreign policy remains the business of individual states
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lady-waiting
[5]Too Much Information
Links:
5. http://b.rw/hFUG5p
Jon Jeremiah Sullivan | GQ | 1 April 2011
On David Foster Wallace, "a writer who kept the landscape of American
literature in a state of energized flux". Part-memoir, part-review of
Wallace's posthumously published novel, "Pale King", said here to be good
but not great [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/too-much-information
[7]Of The 1%, By The 1%, For The 1%
Links:
7. http://b.rw/elEfwk
Joseph Stiglitz | Vanity Fair | 1 April 2011
Nobel prize-winning economist, on inequality in America. Concentration of
power and wealth in top 1% now so great that it may be irreversible. In
effect, the rich have captured the government. They can buy the policies
they want [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/1-1-1
[9]The Human Lake
Links:
9. http://b.rw/i784U8
Carl Zimmer | The Loom | 31 March 2011
Exceptional article on the teeming ecosystem of microbes within our bodies
from one of the masters of Science writing. Reveals that "in your lifetime
you will produce five elephants of microbes. You are basically a microbe
factory" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/human-lake
[11]Flash Fish
Links:
11. http://b.rw/dMVVnU
Edward Docx | Prospect | 31 March 2011
Welcome to the weird world of aqua-scaping. Sales of high-end aquaria are
booming, particularly amongst young men. Items sold include "a £3m aquarium
made from solid gold and mammoth tusk". The fish alone can cost up to
£250,000 [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/flash-fish
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Alison Gopnik on Children and their Minds
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alison-gopnik-on-children-and-their-minds
American author and psychology professor talks about what is really going on
in our children’s minds
Featured Topic
[14]China
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/china
Everything you need to know about the rising power. Original interviews with
experts such as Richard Baum, Isabel Hilton, and Xinran - and the books and
articles they recommend
Reader Recommendations
@[15]TheAmScho New Zinsser on Friday post. Prisoners of
Britspeak. [16]tinyurl.com/3p7mqva [17]#browsings
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/TheAmScho
16.
17. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/defense-food-eater’s-manifesto-by-michael-pollan
[19]Henry Dimbleby says: “Pollan takes the science of food and shows where
it’s been misapplied. There’s been a lot of science around nutrition that is
very bad science.”
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/henry-dimbleby-on-his-fast-food-philosophy
Video of the Day
[20]Schools Are Tools Of Satan
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/schools-are-tools-satan
Trailer for IndoctriNation, US film arguing for home-schooling, abolition of
state schools
Quote of the Day
[21]John Stokes, on writing letters
Links:
21. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7173621.ece
"The art of letter writing is like the art of acting. It is the impression
of spontaneity that makes a performance convincing"
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