Newsletter 320
[1]How To Spot A Psychopath
Links:
1. http://b.rw/jfYT4D
Jon Ronson | Guardian | 21 May 2011
Beautifully worked investigation of psychopathy, told in author's
characteristically appealing, faux-naive style. Centres around encounter
with patient who faked mental illness to avoid prison and got trapped in a
catch-22 [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-spot-psychopath
[3]Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac
Links:
3. http://b.rw/msruHS
Duff McDonald | Businessweek | 19 May 2011
The interesting story of Dietrich Mateschitz, child of provincial Austrian
schoolteachers, creator of global drinks giant. "Taste is of no importance
whatsoever," he says of Red Bull, providing an object lesson in marketing
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/red-bulls-billionaire-maniac
[5]Dear Congress, Your Credit Has Been Refused
Links:
5. http://b.rw/kQkxre
Barton Hinkle | Reason | 20 May 2011
"Our records indicate that your annual income for the 2011 taxable year was
$2,170,000,000,000. You have requested a credit limit of
$17,000,000,000,000. These figures exceed the American Public's guidelines
for credit issuance" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dear-congress-your-credit-has-been-refused
[7]Reinventing The Veil
Links:
7. http://b.rw/iUahQ8
Leila Ahmed | FT | 20 May 2011
Living religions are dynamic. Witness the way the veil, or hijab, appeared
in the mid-1950s to be disappearing. And then from the mid-1980s returned.
Fascinating personal commentary on reasons for the veil's comeback
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/reinventing-veil
[9]The Moralist
Links:
9. http://b.rw/jQI6Rl
Tim Parks | NYRB | 20 May 2011
Enjoyable critique of Stieg Larsson's trilogy of novels. Flawed as both
detective stories and works of psychological realism. So what's the
attraction? Could it be the focus on eye-for-an-eye retribution that we find
so gratifying? [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/moralist
[11]Me And Osama
Links:
11. http://b.rw/jpoKom
Graham Linehan | Now That I Have Your Attention | 19 May 2011
Did you hear that Osama Bin Laden was watching tapes of "The IT Crowd" when
the Navy SEALS raided? Graham Linehan, writer of the TV sitcom, explains how
it happened. The rumour, that is. He made it up, and it got out of control
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/me-and-osama
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Qiu Xiaolong on Classical Chinese Poetry
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/qiu-xiaolong-on-classical-chinese-poetry
The translator and poet says there is no one road when it comes to
translating Chinese poetry, and chooses five anthologies that capture its
magic
Featured Topic
[14]American Conservatism
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/american-conservatism
Bemused by the recent emergence of the Tea Party and radical politics in the
US? Read on to get a truly comprehensive overview of American Conservatism
Reader Recommendations
@[15]polit2k The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity - [16]goo.gl/i0OCx
#[17]browsings #[18]rapture #[19]superinjunctions #[20]dsk
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/polit2k
16. http://goo.gl/i0OCx
17. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
18. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#rapture
19. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#superinjunctions
20. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#dsk
Book of the Day
[21]Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family by Hanna Mina
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/fragments-memory-story-syrian-family-by-hanna-mina
[22]Nikolaos van Dam says: "Mina is describing his youth in the early 20th
century, in circumstances of poverty which I hardly imagined could exist"
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nikolaos-van-dam-on-syria
Video of the Day
[23]"I Understand Hitler"
Links:
23. http://thebrowser.com/videos/i-understand-hitler
Lars Von Trier jumps the shark at the Cannes film festival. Kirsten Dunst
wishes she were somewhere else
Quote of the Day
[24]John Hodgman, on parenting
Links:
24. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200701/apologia-my-second-child?page=2
"The only child, in a family without want, is the apex of Western
civilization"