Newsletter 322
[1]Madoff's Curveball
Links:
1. http://b.rw/jVxvqZ
Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker | 23 May 2011
Gripping read on New York Mets owner, Fred Wilpon. Built a huge real estate
business. Then a baseball franchise which soared in value. Invested with
Madoff. Now he's lost $550m and the bankruptcy trustee wants more. Much more
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/madoffs-curveball
[3]Yes, This Is Called The Dismal Science. Why Do You Ask?
Links:
3. http://b.rw/kcyWej
Bradley Delong | Grasping Reality | 21 May 2011
It's not a good time to be an economist. Delong starts with admission of
error: "How could I ever have been so stupid; how could I have missed so
much?" Continues with sharp, if grim, analysis of current macroeconomic
issues [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/yes-called-dismal-science-why-do-you-ask
[5]Sex Trafficking Of Americans: The Girls Next Door
Links:
5. http://b.rw/mNTG4b
Amy Fine Collins | Vanity Fair | 24 May 2011
Horrifying report. "A pound of heroin or an AK-47 can be retailed once, but
a young girl can be sold 10 to 15 times a day." And hundreds of thousands of
American girls are. The average starting age for prostitution? Just 13
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sex-trafficking-americans-girls-next-door
[7]Hands-Off Training
Links:
7. http://b.rw/kQaRY6
Nick Chambers | Scientific American | 23 May 2011
Fascinating on Google's self-driving cars and problems with truly autonomous
vehicles. "Suppose 10 human-generated fatalities are replaced with five
robot-generated fatalities. Is that an ethical trade that society wants to
make?" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hands-training
[9]Think Yourself Better
Links:
9. http://b.rw/lZLPdV
Anonymous | Economist | 19 May 2011
Years of research into alternative medicine show 95% of treatments
ineffective. Not good news for a $60bn industry. Placebos however can work
– injections more effective than pills, though neither as potent as faked
surgery [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/think-yourself-better
[11]The Life And Times Of Harvey Updyke
Links:
11. http://b.rw/jCPBzP
Wright Thompson | ESPN | 23 May 2011
What happens when your support for a sports team goes too far? When
enthusiasm crosses into judgement-clouding fanaticism. A cautionary tale
from the southern US, where a 62-year-old college football fan is facing
prison [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/life-and-times-harvey-updyke
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Carl Sferrazza Anthony on First Ladies
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/carl-sferrazza-anthony-on-first-ladies
As President Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrive for their state visit to
the UK, the historian of US presidential families considers the
contributions of first ladies, from the very first one to the present day
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]sophiemaynard Deaths of celebrities leads to higher share
prices: [16]b.rw/jPQpDV [17]#browsings
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/sophiemaynard
16. http://b.rw/jPQpDV
17. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]Dispatches by Michael Herr
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/dispatches-by-michael-herr
[19]Lawrence F Kaplan says: "This came out in 1977, soon after the fall of
Saigon. Herr takes us on patrol with American troops. It’s so vivid that it
reads like fiction"
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lawrence-f-kaplan-on-us-intervention
Video of the Day
[20]Stride: You Urned It
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/stride-you-urned-it
Very possibly the most disgusting commercial ever. Just don't watch it, OK?
Quote of the Day
[21]Eli Pariser, on the Internet
Links:
21. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/22/pariser.filter.bubble
"The new Internet doesn't just know you're a dog; it knows your breed and
wants to sell you a bowl of premium kibble"