Newsletter 311
[1]The Best Street Photographer You've Never Heard Of
Links:
1. http://b.rw/lvEsbR
Alex Kotlowitz | Mother Jones | 13 May 2011
Four years ago, a Chicago real estate agent chanced upon a box of negatives.
Its original owner was a recently deceased woman, who'd been a nanny.
Apparently unbeknown to anyone, she was also a highly accomplished
photographer [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/best-street-photographer-youve-never-heard
[3]Mind Reading: Technology Turns Thought Into Action
Links:
3. http://b.rw/msukVi
Jon Hamilton | NPR | 12 May 2011
Amazing story of old technology from 1950s that has come back into favour
with neuroscientists. Electrocorticography, coupled with modern computing
power, decodes electrical signals in the brain and can read your mind
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mind-reading-technology-turns-thought-action
[5]Antilunchism
Links:
5. http://b.rw/jHq5QE
Paul Ford | Ftrain | 11 May 2011
"Why must we cram our interactions into 75 minutes sometime between 12:30
and 2pm, which usually involves something drizzled over something else and
then a light garnish, followed by an ape-dominance demonstration of who can
pay?" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/antilunchism
[7]Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg
Links:
7. http://b.rw/lcGuTs
Brad Stone | Businessweek | 12 May 2011
Introducing Facebook's chief operating officer: "There's a new shorthand for
the kind of leader who's willing to serve as a second-in-command,
complementing without overshadowing the wunderkind entrepreneur: a Sheryl
Sandberg" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-facebook-needs-sheryl-sandberg
[9]Story Of Laurent Gbagbo
Links:
9. http://b.rw/m6xLoW
Stephen Smith | LRB | 11 May 2011
Expert history of Ivory Coast and its troubles. Ethnically and religiously
diverse. French-backed autocrat Felix Houphouët-Boigny held it together. But
when he died in 1993, identity politics took over. Country went mad
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/story-laurent-gbagbo
[11]Offside
Links:
11. http://b.rw/lQmmVE
Anonymous | Economist | 12 May 2011
Enough with opaque bidding processes, constant corruption allegations. It's
time to take a different approach to deciding who hosts the football World
Cup. A public, transparent auction would do the trick [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/offside
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Richard Tofel on the Changing Business of Journalism
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-tofel-on-changing-business-journalism
General manager of the non-profit newsroom ProPublica and former assistant
publisher of the Wall Street Journal tells us his predictions for the future
of news
Featured Topic
[14]Football
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/soccer
A collection of hand-picked articles and interviews with leading authorities
on the biggest sport in the world
Reader Recommendations
@[15]polit2k Chained but untamed | The Economist - [16]goo.gl/XCrzJ
#[17]browsings
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/polit2k
16. http://goo.gl/XCrzJ
17. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/kitchen-gods-wife-by-amy-tan
[19]Ellah Allfrey says: "Bestselling story of a Chinese-American daughter
and her complex relationship with her immigrant mother"
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ellah-allfrey-on-diaspora
Video of the Day
[20]I Can't Wait Until I Grow Up
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/i-cant-wait-until-i-grow
You may find this disturbing. And if you don't, you are in urgent need of
counselling
Quote of the Day
[21]Ezra Klein, on money
Links:
21. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-no-brainer-awards/2011/05/09/AFK41qgG_blog.html
"It now costs 1.7 cents to pound out a penny, which means we’d save
billions of dollars by retiring the hardy coin"