Newsletter 282
[1]Virgin Careers: Pilot-Astronauts
Links:
1. 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” [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/virgin-careers-pilot-astronauts
[3]The Poison Of Unhappiness
Links:
3. 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 [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lane-wallace-atlantic-8th-april-2011
[5]What Not To Wear
Links:
5. 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 [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/suzanne-merkelson-joshua-e-keating-foreign-policy-11th-april-2011
[7]Real Housewives Of Wall Street
Links:
7. http://b.rw/f4ujb6
Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 13 April 2011
"Huge roaring river of cash" has flowed out of Fed since 2008 crash, to prop
up US financial system. Now Fed has been forced to open its books. Money has
ended up in some odd hands. Those of Morgan Stanley's boss's wife, for
example [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/real-housewives-wall-street
[9]Coffee Studies Should Warm Your Heart
Links:
9. http://b.rw/e3LWSz
Elena Conis | LA Times | 10 April 2011
Turns out coffee probably isn't bad for you after all. May even prevent risk
of strokes and could benefit cardiovascular system. Drinking coffee got a
bad press because it's fun and tastes good - so we presumed it was unhealthy
too [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/coffee-studies-should-warm-your-heart
[11]Rational Irrationality
Links:
11. http://b.rw/eGWsga
John Cassidy | New Yorker | 12 April 2011
Report from conference of George Soros's Institute for New Economic
Thinking, at Bretton Woods. Big thinkers in world economics try to find some
new ideas, after their old ideas failed to help them see the 2008 crash
coming [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rational-irrationality
[13]When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
Links:
13. http://b.rw/dOJZyE
Jeanne Maglaty | Smithsonian | 8 April 2011
Quite recently, in fact. Pink was boys' colour in 1920s, shifted to girls by
1940s. Gender-neutral phase in 1970s. Pink-blue divide back in 1980s,
spurred by prenatal testing: expectant parents wanted gender-specific
layette [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink
[15]Sex And Salter
Links:
15. http://b.rw/eVje2c
Alexander Chee | Paris Review | 11 April 2011
"Too much writing about sex tries to either make it prettier or more
serious, sexier or funnier or shocking". Fitting tribute to James Salter,
one of the masters of erotic fiction. Packed with good advice for aspiring
writers [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/alexander-chee-paris-review-11th-april-2011
[17]Anatomy Of An Afghan War Tragedy
Links:
17. http://b.rw/hvqDvv
David S. Cloud | LA Times | 10 April 2011
Gripping second-by-second account of a U.S. air strike that killed Afghan
civilians. Shows that having "some of the most sophisticated tools in the
history of war" cannot prevent against bad judgement and human error
[18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/anatomy-afghan-war-tragedy
FiveBooks Interview
[19]Andrew Lawson on Garden Photography
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrew-lawson-on-garden-photography
One of the world's leading garden photographers talks us through the many
different styles employed in his field
Featured Topic
[20]Israel Palestine
Links:
20. 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
Reader Recommendations
_@[21]polit2k_ New Statesman – The bugger, bugged – _[22]goo.gl/Hu73j_
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://goo.gl/Hu73j
Book of the Day
[23]My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/my-life-art-by-constantin-stanislavski
[24]Michael Billington says: “Stanislavski says that you can apply to acting
a system and a method – it’s not just a case of relying on occasional
flashes of inspiration.”
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-billington-on-20th-century-theatre
Video of the Day
[25]Czech President Pockets Pen
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/videos/czech-president-pockets-pen
"It was a gift", say the Chileans. But a fine study in body language, all
the same
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