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