Newsletter 291
[1]Poppies For Pain Relief
Links:
1. http://b.rw/g2MKca
Charli Carpenter | Lawyers, Guns & Money | 17 April 2011
There is a global shortage of analgesics like morphine for pain relief, and
yet the international community focuses on poppy eradication in Afghanistan,
the world's largest poppy producer, in the name of the "war on drugs"
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/poppies-pain-relief
[3]Life After A Bestseller
Links:
3. http://b.rw/igROz9
Elif Batuman | Guardian | 20 April 2011
Gorgeous first-person account of pleasures of success, from brilliant young
critic and novelist whose first book, a collection of essays on Russian
literature, became a surprise best-seller. Cameo appearance from Jonathan
Franzen [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/life-after-bestseller
[5]Ariel Casts Out Caliban
Links:
5. http://b.rw/dTFKev
Eric Michael Johnson | Times Higher Education | 21 April 2011
Debunking myth of "killer ape" theory of evolution. Studies of bonobos
reveals calmer, more passive animals, likely to be our closest animal
ancestors. Suggests mutual aid and pleasure not violence were keys to human
success [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ariel-casts-out-caliban
[7]In The Sorting Office
Links:
7. http://b.rw/hU94gg
James Meek | LRB | 20 April 2011
Voyage through the Dutch postal service, privatised in 1989, then opened up
to competition. Result: a horrible mess. As opposed to the British postal
service, liberalised but not privatised. Result: another horrible mess. Go
figure [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sorting-office
[9]Concatenation In The Arab World
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ib9PZC
Perry Anderson | New Left Review | 20 April 2011
Marxist analysis of the Arab awakening. America has backed despots, to keep
the oil safe, but would prefer deferential democracies. "If an Erdogan can
be found for Cairo or Tunis, Washington will have every reason to be
satisfied" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/concatenation-arab-world
[11]Nervous Nellies
Links:
11. http://b.rw/hVjUpA
Taylor Clark | Slate | 20 April 2011
Are women really more anxious than men? Parenting disparities and cultural
pressures play a part. Yet "Women are simply more honest about their
anxiety, because they've been taught to deal with it through unencumbered
fretting" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/taylor-clark-slate-20th-april-2011
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Ian McEwan on Books That Have Helped Shape His Novels
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ian-mcewan-on-five-books-have-influenced-my-novels
Novelist Ian McEwan talks about the books that have helped shape his own –
from the biography of a scientific genius to a treatise on the end of time
– and the importance of finding ‘mental freedom’
Featured Topic
[14]Climate Change
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/climate-change-0
Want to know how our planet is faring? Access the definitive reading list on
climate change, as recommended by Jonathan Porritt and others, and read
articles that will get you past the smoke and mirrors of Climategate
Reader Recommendations
@DAMIENJOYCE Making it in electronic music, despite democratization via
@mikeloukides [15]t.co/i8zz4RX [16]#browsings
Links:
15. http://t.co/i8zz4RX
16. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[17]Le Fil de l'Epée by Charles de Gaulle
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/le-fil-de-lepée-by-charles-de-gaulle
[18]Michael Palliser says: “Short and written in the early 1930s, this is a
fascinating exposition of how a great leader has to behave”
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-palliser-on-diplomacy
Video of the Day
[19]South Carolina Tea Partiers Speak Out
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/videos/south-carolina-tea-partiers-speak-out
I know, I had you at "South Carolina". And, by the way, they're really very
keen on Donald Trump
Quote of the Day
[20]Madison Smartt Bell, on airport security
Links:
20. http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Interview-Madison-Smartt-Bell
"A terrorist who can make you feel dread whenever you see an airplane has
succeeded brilliantly"