Newsletter 283
Best of the Week
[1]Anatomy Of An Afghan War Tragedy
Links:
1. 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
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/anatomy-afghan-war-tragedy
[3]The Victorian Art Of Murder
Links:
3. http://b.rw/hqOsQ3
Jonathan Barnes | TLS | 13 April 2011
Grisly murders were celebrated in 19th-century popular culture for three
main reasons: professionalisation of the police force, rise of the popular
press, arrival of the detective as the righter of wrongs and the solver of
problems [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/victorian-art-murder
[5]Mafia Boss Tells All
Links:
5. http://b.rw/fl30kK
William Rashbaum | NYT | 12 April 2011
Bonnano family boss testifies in New York court. And yes, it sounds just
like The Sopranos “You never talk in a club, you never talk in a car, you
never talk on a cellphone, you never talk on a phone, you never talk in your
house" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mafia-boss-breaks-code-tells-all
[7]Mafia Boss Tells All
Links:
7. http://b.rw/fl30kK
William Rashbaum | NYT | 12 April 2011
Bonnano family boss testifies in New York court. And yes, it sounds just
like The Sopranos “You never talk in a club, you never talk in a car, you
never talk on a cellphone, you never talk on a phone, you never talk in your
house" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mafia-boss-breaks-code-tells-all
[9]No Strings Attached
Links:
9. http://b.rw/h6tuJk
David Roberts | Outside | 12 April 2011
Outstanding profile of Alex Honnold, exponent of the most dangerous form of
rock-climbing -- free-soloing. No ropes, no other aids, no partner. Its only
rule: if you slip, you die. Reading to make you shiver then sweat
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/no-strings-attached
[11]Twitter's Forgotten Cofounder - Noah Glass
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ec2lPV
Nicholas Carlson | Business Insider | 13 April 2011
Unmissable interview with the Twitter founder you never heard of - a man
abandoned by his friends and forgotten by history. "Some people have gotten
credit, some people haven't. The reality is it was a group effort"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/twitters-forgotten-cofounder-noah-glass
[13]Brain Drain At CIA
Links:
13. http://b.rw/eRwTLR
Julie Tate | Washington Post | 12 April 2011
Since 9/11 private agencies have been poaching top talent from CIA, then
hiring them back to the agency as contract employees or hiring them out as
lobbyists. End to old agency culture, which said that when a spy retired, he
retired [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brain-drain-cia
[15]How Self-Control Works
Links:
15. http://b.rw/hw7P63
Dan Ariely | Scientific American | 12 April 2011
Investigation into one of the most fundamental of human skills - crucial for
an effective society but can it be taught? First question, what actually is
self-control? Is it any more than an effective ability to distract
ourselves? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-self-control-works
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Patrick French on India
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/patrick-french-on-india
Author of acclaimed new work _India: A Portrait_ takes us around the
world’s largest democracy, from the dance bars of Bombay to Kerala crab
curry on the Southwest coast
Featured Topic
[18]Poetry
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/topics/poetry
From poets on poetry and lives of the great poets, to fact-checking verse
and Google Voice as poetry ... something for the bard in us all
Reader Recommendations
_@[19]sophiemaynard_: I love it! Most people can’t tell the difference
between expensive wine and plonk. _[20]bit.ly/fRexBN [21]#browsings_
Links:
19. http://twitter.com/sophiemaynard
20. http://bit.ly/fRexBN
21. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[22]The Shining by Stephen King
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/shining-by-stephen-king
_[23]R J Ellory_ says: “I have always rated Stephen King. I think he is so
much more than just a commercially successful horror writer.”
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/r-j-ellory-on-human-dramas
Video of the Day
[24]The Governator: Official Trailer
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/videos/governator-official-trailer
Animated cartoon, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as comic superhero
Quote of the Day
[25]Guy Kawasaki, on the iPhone
Links:
25. http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-survived-80s-thanks-to-one-piece-of-software-says-guy-kawasaki/90024
"$188 worth of parts, manufactured in a plant where workers tend to commit
suicide, hitched to America’s worst cell phone network. But this is not
how Steve Jobs pitches it"
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