Newsletter 305
[1]The Reason We Reason
Links:
1. http://b.rw/jiri6v
Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 4 May 2011
“Let me tell you about a classic psychological study that I don’t
believe.” So begins Lehrer’s fascinating contemplation of confirmation bias
and the motivations that drive our reasoning [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/reason-we-reason
[3]Woman Of The World
Links:
3. http://b.rw/lmEtBD
Jonathan Alter | Vanity Fair | 6 May 2011
Hillary Clinton has flown an exhausting half a million miles since becoming
secretary of state in 2009. This long assessment of her performance packs in
plenty of interesting detail, even if the whole is a little over-sympathetic
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/woman-world
[5]Researchers Re-Open Their Minds To Psychedelic Drugs
Links:
5. http://b.rw/jd6oEa
Sam Kornell | Miller-McCune | 5 May 2011
A hunt for psychedelic mushrooms beneath the Golden Gate Bridge offers an
opportunity to look at new research on the neuroscience of
hallucination-inducing drugs [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/researchers-re-open-their-minds-psychedelic-drugs
[7]War Dog
Links:
7. http://b.rw/jECNBf
Rebecca Frankel | Foreign Policy | 4 May 2011
Incredible photo-essay on military dogs. Canines have served in the army for
past 100 years but are no longer classified as "equipment". Remarkable
olfactory senses make them valuable team members. And yes, they can even
skydive [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-dog
[9]Dr. Richard Olney In Last Stages, Study Of Disease
Links:
9. http://b.rw/iqNdmL
Carl T. Hall | San Francisco Chronicle | 25 April 2011
Richard Olney is a leading clinical specialist in, and victim of, ALS (Lou
Gehrig's disease). He will likely die soon. This is a haunting account of
Olney and his son working on what will probably be his last paper on the
subject [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dr-richard-olney-last-stages-study-disease
[11]"The Book Is Dead"? Let That Myth Rest In Peace
Links:
11. http://b.rw/iLJeXb
Peter Osnos | Atlantic | 4 May 2011
Good round-up of latest publisher news. E-book sales rising dramatically;
numbers of new and re-issued titles likely increasing; bricks and mortar
operations still challenged; new operators threaten Amazon. Books certainly
not dying [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/book-dead-let-myth-rest-peace
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Woody Allen on Inspiration
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/woody-allen-on-memory
The film legend discusses books that have resonated with him, from JD
Salinger to Elia Kazan and beyond
Featured Topic
[14]Journalism
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/journalism
Find out what it's really like to be a journalist. Read about the shadowy
world of foreign reporting, learn what makes a great article and delve into
the history of journalism
Reader Recommendations
@[15]janetprensky Great Boston Globe story: Army to build golf driving
ranges for Iraqi soldiers thanx to Cape Cod
man.[16]tinyurl.com/65xeclw #[17]browsings
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/janetprensky
16. http://tinyurl.com/65xeclw
17. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930 by Gilbert
Osofsky
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/harlem-making-ghetto-negro-new-york-1890-1930-by-gilbert-osofsky
[19]Ben Greenman says: "It’s a very good, very well researched history, a
wonderful social history of the city."
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ben-greenman-on-new-york-city
Video of the Day
[20]Cadbury's Dancing Clothes
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/cadburys-dancing-clothes
"I'm convinced someone records their dreams then just puts Cadbury at the
end of it"—YouTube commenter
Quote of the Day
[21]Will Davies, on innovation
Links:
21. http://potlatch.typepad.com/files/knowing-unknowable-preprint.pdf
"Innovation means imagining the possibility of entirely new categories. It
is not so much a marshalling of knowledge, more an attitude that is taken
towards ignorance"