Newsletter 302
[1]The Last Post
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1. http://b.rw/jKyLE6
Derek Miller | Penmachine | 4 May 2011
"Here it is. I'm dead, and this is my last post to my blog. I died in
Burnaby on May 3, 2011, age 41, of complications from stage-four metastatic
colorectal cancer. We all knew this was coming. Derek doesn't exist anymore"
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/last-post
[3]Why The Numbers Game Is Bad For Our Kids
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3. http://b.rw/mCSS3X
Mr N | An Urban Teacher's Education | 2 May 2011
Children learn about science by building mousetrap cars, not memorising
vocabulary. Super blogpost by LA biology teacher blasting unhelpful,
misleading "Teach for America" tests. Thanks to Emily Skehan for the emailed
recommendation [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-numbers-game-bad-our-kids
[5]Really Virtual FAQ
Links:
5. http://b.rw/lOgvfX
Sohaib Athar | Really Virtual | 5 May 2011
Abbottabad resident who unknowingly live-tweeted Bin Laden raid introduces
himself. "I am writing this FAQ to save everyone’s time (but especially
mine), and to answer the (mostly redundant) questions that I am receiving
via email" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/really-virtual-faq
[7]Obituary: Colonel Albert Bachmann
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7. http://b.rw/mQcqit
Anonymous | Telegraph | 4 May 2011
"Mustachioed, pipe-smoking and blessed with an ability to wreak havoc within
his own organisation, Bachmann’s resemblance to Inspector Clouseau was
striking. He reduced the Swiss intelligence agency to a state bordering on
chaos" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-colonel-albert-bachmann
[9]To The Heart, Through The Stomach
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9. http://b.rw/kkmrcN
Roger Ebert | Journal | 4 May 2011
"I am one of about 350,000 Americans with a feeding tube. Six times a day, a
can of liquid food is dripped into me from a plastic bag on a pole." It's a
quiet, efficient way of eating. But generally, other people prefer not to
watch [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/heart-through-stomach
[11]The Last Two Veterans Of WWI
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11. http://b.rw/ksuLwV
Evan Fleischer | The Awl | 3 May 2011
About 65 million participated; nearly 10 million were killed. From that most
desperate of conflicts the last two veterans of any nation to remain were
Claude Choules (d 5/5/2011) and Florence Green. A touching, discursive
tribute [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/last-two-veterans-wwi
FiveBooks Interview
[13]James Shapiro on Shakespeare biographies
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/james-shapiro-on-shakespeare-biographies
Writing a traditional biography of Shakespeare is impossible, says acclaimed
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro. But here he selects the best five books
that tackle the life of the Bard
Featured Topic
[14]Crime & Thriller Writing
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/crime-writing
Leading writers discuss their genre and select their top five essential
reads, plus selected articles on the murky world of thrillers and whodunnits
Reader Recommendations
_@[15]polit2k_ Letter from China: Did a Chinese Oil Executive Consume
$243,604 in Booze?: The New Yorker - [16]goo.gl/07O0s [17]#browsings
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/polit2k
16. http://goo.gl/07O0s
17. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars by Sonia
Faleiro
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/beautiful-thing-inside-secret-world-bombay’s-dance-bars-by-sonia-faleiro
_[19]Patrick French says:_ "This book really shows the sex trade from a
woman’s perspective in a way that is very rarely written about. But it’s
also a lot more than that"
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/patrick-french-on-india
Video of the Day
[20]War School
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/war-school
From the vaults. But well worth another look. Hang in for the twist around
the 5' mark
Quote of the Day
[21]Ronald Dworkin, on living well
Links:
21. http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=2739
"If we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write
a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the
cosmic sands”