Newsletter 297

[1]Of Mines And Men
Links:
1. http://b.rw/j3mS3l

Scott Johnson | Guernica | 27 April 2011

Angola's economy booms, thanks to oil revenues and Chinese investment.
Angolans don't much like Chinese, and vice versa, but business is business.
Country still a mess after 30 years of civil war, but the Chinese can hack
it [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mines-and-men

[3]How To Make Your Lie Go Mainstream
Links:
3. http://b.rw/kNtCPU

Matt Honan | Mother Jones | 27 April 2011

Handy flowchart. Get media attention for your crazy idea in 26 easy steps.
"Are the facts on your side? No problem. Facts aren't finite. We'll make
some more". And if somebody else has better facts? Then "teach the
controversy" [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-make-your-lie-go-mainstream

[5]Preservation Of Self Is True Measure Of Elite's Genius
Links:
5. http://b.rw/iMtKjE

Fintan O'Toole | Irish Times | 26 April 2011

Many of Ireland's banking and governing elite emerged from the recent
economic crisis financially well-off and, all things considered, with
reputations intact. In fact, key government officials were actually
promoted. Impressive [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/preservation-self-true-measure-elites-genius

[7]Archives And Alligators
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7. http://b.rw/mR2oy1

Stephen Ennis | TLS | 27 April 2011

Well into the 1970s Ted Hughes was selling manuscripts of his poems for
nominal sums to meet pressing cash needs. Today his archive, bought by an
American university, is probably worth millions. A short history of a
booming market [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/archives-and-alligators

[9]Why Addictions Are Hard To Forget
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9. http://b.rw/iBTPhx

Nina Bai | Scientific American | 27 April 2011

Research on mice backs up "growing consensus in the addiction field that
addiction is a learning and memory disorder". Alcoholics and hard drug users
suffer from subconsious reward-based conditioning - a sort of Pavlovian
response [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-addictions-are-hard-forget

[11]The Bloody Crossroads
Links:
11. http://b.rw/kfOMdF

Aman Sethi | Caravan | 27 April 2011

Epic read on India's Maoist insurgency and the (mostly ineffective) ways the
country's security forces try to deal with them. Story focuses on one
village hit particularly hard by fighting factions. Great first-hand report
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bloody-crossroads

FiveBooks Interview

[13]Carl Zimmer on The Strangeness of Life
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-zimmer-on-strangeness-life

Journalist, author and award-winning blogger discusses the strangeness of
life, from viruses to manipulative flatworms