Newsletter 275
[1]Net Impact
Links:
1. http://b.rw/e6QTSD
Julia Ioffe | New Yorker | 4 April 2011
Profile of Russian lawyer, blogger, and anti-corruption crusader Alexey
Navalny. Smart and seemingly fearless, he's unafraid to publicly challenge
Kremlin-connected officials. He may be the beleaguered opposition's last
best hope [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/net-impact
[3]Dear Urban Cyclists: Go Play in Traffic
Links:
3. http://b.rw/gz1GfM
P.J. O'Rourke | WSJ | 2 April 2011
Entertaining rant against the bicycle. "The reason it took mankind 5,000
years to get the idea for the bicycle is that it was a bad idea. The bicycle
is the only method of conveyance worse than feet". A great spot from @nuzav
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dear-urban-cyclists-go-play-traffic
[5]Murder On The EU Express
Links:
5. http://b.rw/g67GLO
Niall Ferguson | Newsweek | 3 April 2011
Were the monetary union to disintegrate, where would finger of blame point?
Finance ministers? European banks? Ferguson would have us believe main
culprit is the German voter, as he draws similarities with an Agatha
Christie mystery [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/murder-eu-express
[7]China’s New Age Of Enlightenment
Links:
7. http://bit.ly/gdBDEb
András Szántó | Art Newspaper | 4 April 2011
China aims for global cultural power. 100 new museums opening each year.
National Museum on Tiananmen Square now biggest museum in the world, three
times its former size. “Half a million visitors is not a lot for us”, says
curator [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/china’s-new-age-enlightenment
[9]After The Uprising
Links:
9. http://b.rw/fQwh4i
Dexter Filkins | New Yorker | 4 April 2011
You knew there was something going on in Yemen, but what with Egypt and
Libya, you lost track of it? No problem. Here's the complete story. In
brief: government of President Saleh so corrupt as to make Karzai look good
by comparison [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/after-uprising
[11]Osborne!
Links:
11. http://b.rw/eafyYY
Harry McCracken | Technologizer | 1 April 2011
Wonderful story of first portable PC. "Famously touted as fitting under an
airplane seat, but you couldn’t actually use it on an airplane–not only
because you would have busted your tray table, but also because it had no
battery" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/osborne
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Jackie Kay on Poetry
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jackie-kay-on-poetry
The Scottish poet and novelist chooses a life-affirming anthology, new
women’s voices, a former mentor, contemporary black British talent and a
poet with a quirky take on everything
Featured Topic
[14]Autism
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/autism
Leading academics, and parents with their own personal experiences of
autism, discuss what best to read on the disorder. Accompanied by a
selection of must-read articles
Reader Recommendations
[15]@nuzav Who Could Blame G.E.? – [16]nyti.ms/fejank [17]#browsings
Links:
15. https://twitter.com/nuzav
16. http://nyti.ms/fejank
17. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]The Secret Life of Trees
by Colin Tudge
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/secret-life-trees-by-colin-tudge
[19]Jonathan Silvertown says: “This is basically a tree-lovers’ book and
it’s a bit of a catalogue in a way.”
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jonathan-silvertown-on-plants
Video of the Day
[20]Share The Air
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/share-air
Rachel Sequoia presents her brand, Share The Air, to the Venture Capital
Fundraising Club of Silicon Valley
Quote of the Day
[21]Warren Buffett, on lobbying
Links:
21. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/tax-code-and-incentives
"Every line in the tax code is there because someone was fighting for it.
The people who care about that line are concentrated and focused on it,
and people who are affected by that line are diffused and really not even
aware of it"
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