Newsletter 307
[1]Holiday In Fukushima
Links:
1. http://b.rw/jAy5rI
Pachiguy | Spike Japan | 8 May 2011
Reflective Japanese wanderings, in the manner of WG Sebald. "Where would the
roads be most deserted, where would the hotels be emptiest, where would the
queues be shortest? It was time, I decided, for a holiday in Fukushima"
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/holiday-fukushima
[3]How To Make Money In Microseconds
Links:
3. http://b.rw/loUYXp
Donald MacKenzie | LRB | 8 May 2011
On "flash trading". Most stock market activity now consists of computers
generating floods of orders to discover and arbitrage prices. Algorithms
outsmart algorithms. It works fine, until it doesn't. Then you get a flash
crash [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-make-money-microseconds
[5]China's Growing Interests In Siberia
Links:
5. http://b.rw/iEWCm4
Matthias Schepp | Spiegel | 5 May 2011
Six million Russians are scattered across eastern Siberia. Many are leaving.
Just across the border live 90m Chinese, with another billion at their back.
Siberia is full of minerals which China covets. What could possibly go
wrong? [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/chinas-growing-interests-siberia
[7]How The McEconomy Bombed The American Worker
Links:
7. http://b.rw/mnDgMr
Andy Kroll | TomDispatch | 8 May 2011
Good news: new jobs are being created. Not so good news: you may be paid
less than before. Pessimistic analysis suggests this is a McJobs recovery,
marked by an expansion of low paid jobs and the impoverishment of the middle
class [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-mceconomy-bombed-american-worker
[9]Unspoken Truths
Links:
9. http://b.rw/jOO8fZ
Christopher Hitchens | Vanity Fair | 9 May 2011
Advancing cancer attacks his vocal cords. "My voice suddenly rose to a
piping squeak. It began to register all over the place, from a gruff and
husky whisper to a papery, plaintive bleat. Now it threatens daily to
disappear" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unspoken-truths
[11]Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows
Links:
11. http://b.rw/kLOvD5
Various | Business Insider/BuzzFeed | 8 May 2011
The headline speaks for itself. There are some extraordinarily striking, and
well-composed, images among these 100 photographs taken out of airplane
windows all over the world [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/incredible-views-out-airplane-windows
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Amy Chua on Being a Mother
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/amy-chua-on-being-mother
Author of self-satirising memoir on ambitious "tiger mothers" discusses the
books about parenting that have made the most impact on her
Featured Topic
[14]Art
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/art
What are the most influential art books? Is cow dung art? How political was
Picasso? What's the correct etiquette for a gallery opening? All this
answered and more
Reader Recommendations
@[15]prospect_uk Can we live without lies? [16]bit.ly/lT1KTm #[17]browsings
@[18]microphilosophy
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/prospect_uk
16. http://bit.ly/lT1KTm
17. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
18. http://twitter.com/microphilosophy
Book of the Day
[19]Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/twilight-delhi-by-ahmed-ali
[20]Roy Moxham says: "A fascinating story of what life was like in a
prosperous, middle-class family in the crowded lanes of Old Delhi in the
early 20th century"
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/roy-moxham-on-indian-journeys
Video of the Day
[21]Art Of Flight
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/videos/art-flight
Even more extreme snowboarding, from the producers of "That's It, That's
All"
Quote of the Day
[22]Andrew Brown, on democracy
Links:
22. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2011/may/06/nickclegg
"Democracy is like drains. You miss it dreadfully when it's not there"