Newsletter 281
[1]Where We All Will Be Received
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1. http://b.rw/g1dOrj
Nell Boeschenstein | This Recording | 8 April 2011
Super essay on Paul Simon's Graceland, one of the great albums of modern
times, in celebration of its 25th anniversary. Despite courting political
controversy, the album was seen "as breaking the dam for the world music
trend" [2]Comments
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2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/where-we-all-will-be-received
[3]Global Imbalances And The Paradox Of Thrift
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3. http://b.rw/ffELFo
Max Corden | Vox | 11 April 2011
Economics professor provides valuable insights into financial crisis. Key
issue on global imbalances is why "there was a failure of the world’s
financial sector in turning increased savings into fruitful investment"
[4]Comments
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4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/global-imbalances-and-paradox-thrift
[5]Guy Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook
Links:
5. http://b.rw/gx7NS3
Henry Blodget | Business Insider | 12 April 2011
And it's not Mark Zuckerberg. It's a convicted fraudster called Paul Ceglia,
who says he had a business partnership with Zuckerberg in 2003-04. He's
backed by a big law firm, and an email trail that looks frighteningly
persuasive [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/guy-says-he-owns-50-facebook
[7]Virgin Careers: Pilot-Astronauts
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7. http://b.rw/gKXwDf
Virgin Galactic | Virgin Careers | 11 April 2011
It's not often we recommend you read a help-wanted advertisement, but this
one, from Virgin Galactic, "the world’s first private spaceline" comes like
a wake-up call from the future. "Prior spaceflight experience is an
advantage” [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/virgin-careers-pilot-astronauts
[9]The Poison Of Unhappiness
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9. http://b.rw/fCbFza
Lane Wallace | Atlantic | 8 April 2011
Our obsession with happiness continues. A recent British study found that
melancholy in others can affect your health, “a bit like second-hand
smoke”. Not as lethal, perhaps, but far trickier to regulate [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lane-wallace-atlantic-8th-april-2011
[11]What Not To Wear
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11. http://b.rw/fB0Nnp
Suzanne Merkelson, Joshua E. Keating | Foreign Policy | 11 April 2011
Presenting five countries where wearing the wrong clothes is a crime. Don’t
get a dodgy haircut in Korea or cross-dress in Saudi Arabia. Punishments
vary from fines to flogging. The fashion police are for real [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/suzanne-merkelson-joshua-e-keating-foreign-policy-11th-april-2011
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Bruce Cumings on the Korean War
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/bruce-cumings-on-korean-war
Award-winning Koreanologist from the University of Chicago discusses the
U.S.’s influence over the narrative of the Korean War, and the
misconceptions many people still hold
Featured Topic
[14]Relationships
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/relationships
Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask), includes
interviews with psychology and relationship experts from Mira Kirshenbaum to
Kate Figes and articles that cover the myriad of human complexities
Reader Recommendations
@[15]bobtrev Five myths about the future of
journalism [16]b.rw/hvtEBi#[17]browsings
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15. http://twitter.com/bobtrev
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17. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/true-believer-by-eric-hoffer
[19]Jessica Stern says: “One of the fascinating things Hoffer does is to
look at how the Nazi and Communist Parties were recruiting from the same
pool.”
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jessica-stern-on-who-terrorists-are
Video of the Day
[20]Head-Tracking For iPad
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/head-tracking-ipad
Glasses-free 3D for iPad. Front-facing camera detects your head movement,
app computes perspective
Quote of the Day
[21]Scott Adams, on timing
Links:
21. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/best_work
"Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of
all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing"
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