Newsletter 278 (weekly)
We hope you enjoy this first edition of our ‘Best of the Week’ newsletter:
eight unmissable articles from last week that were featured on our
[1]homepage, alongside our [2]FiveBooks interview, video and quotation of
the week, plus more, thrown into the mix.
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
2. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Happy browsing!
[3]Fukushima Dai-ichi Status And Prognosis
Links:
3. http://b.rw/i9bjmm
Euan Mearns | The Oil Drum | 31 March 2011
It looked like Japan's nuclear disaster was an overstated, media-hyped,
problem. But has the situation changed? Possibly so; we could now be looking
at a more serious issue. Excellent analysis of current available information
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fukushima-dai-ichi-status-and-prognosis
[5]Why Experts Get It Wrong
Links:
5. http://b.rw/gm9Rrp
James Warren | Atlantic | 1 April 2011
The pressure of being an expert encourages experts to be wrong; they extend
themselves beyond the facts. Heightened accountability encourages
"stretching to make comparisons and falsely recalling features that simply
aren't there" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-experts-get-it-wrong
[7]Bank Laundered Billions For Mexican Gangs
Links:
7. http://b.rw/fa5qpX
Ed Vulliamy | Guardian | 3 April 2011
And pretty much got away with it. Wachovia, since taken over by Wells Fargo,
laundered drug money equivalent to one-third of Mexico's GDP, for murderous
cartels. When US eventually prosecuted, case was settled for a small fine
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bank-laundered-billions-mexican-gangs
[9]Walking And Reading
Links:
9. http://b.rw/idnK5h
Lee Klein | Swink | 7 April 2011
Absurdist, enjoyable essay about the merits of reading while walking. You
can tackle boring books without risk of falling asleep. And isn't it better
for the city than walking while smoking, or drinking, or cursing, or chewing
gum? [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/waling-and-reading
[11]What Really Ails Italy?
Links:
11. http://b.rw/h5gL7X
Tim Parks | New Yorker | 4 April 2011
Unemployment high, wages low. Government in turmoil. North-South antagonism.
Public squalor. Choking bureaucracy. It's that way now, it's been that way
for at least 150 years. Incapable of reform, Italy makes a virtue of
complacency [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/what-really-ails-italy
[13]The Sleepless Elite
Links:
13. http://b.rw/hO9gg6
Melinda Beck | WSJ | 5 April 2011
Energetic people often need little sleep: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson and Leonardo Da Vinci, to name a few. New research indicates a
gene variation in these kinds of people. Moment of truth: are you one of
them? [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/melinda-beck-wsj-5th-april-2011
[15]Why A Lack Of Empathy Is The Root Of All Evil
Links:
15. http://b.rw/fmcW5x
Clint Witchalls | Independent | 5 April 2011
Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen argues that that we shouldn't use evil as an
explanation for why people do bad things. His new book examines how lack of
empathy, born from genetic and environmental factors, is the reason for
cruelty [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/clint-witchalls-independent-5th-april-2011
[17]Osborne!
Links:
17. 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" [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/osborne
FiveBooks Interview
[19]Frieda Hughes on Poetry
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/frieda-hughes-on-poetry
Wit, intelligence, compassion and an ability to shock are the qualities
valued by the poet, author and painter, who talks about taking advice from
Dad (Ted Hughes) and why she didn’t write for ten years
Featured Topic
[20]Sex
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/sex
Call girls, bondage, pornography, naked yoga, adultery and the science of
sperm; it's all here but maybe NSFW
Reader Recommendations
@nuzav Classic PJ O’Rourke humor. http://b.rw/iiubi8 [22]#browsings
Links:
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Week
[23]From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity by John Perlin
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/space-earth-story-solar-electricity-by-john-perlin
[24]Bob Johnstone says: “Perlin’s book is a history of the first 40 years of
solar. It’s a beautiful book, everything an introduction to a subject should
be.”
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bob-johnstone-on-solar-power
Video of the Week
[25]Donald Trump On Today Show
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/videos/donal-trump-today-show
Just so you know. The Tea Party's Choice. "The world laughs at us. They
won't be laughing if I'm president"
Quote of the Week
[26]Karl Smith on correlation
Links:
26. http://modeledbehavior.com/2011/04/03/healthy-living-vouchers
"The rich are likely to be tall. Yet, this isn’t because they’ve found a
solution to shortness"
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