Newsletter 323
[1]Nightmare On F Street
Links:
1. http://b.rw/lDpXn2
Mark Pulham | Crime Magazine | 23 May 2011
After a third body was discovered in the back garden, the police realised
they might have made a mistake in letting the white-haired landlady go off
for a coffee. Despite appearances, Dorothea Puente was a nine-time serial
killer [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/nightmare-f-street
[3]Before Their Time
Links:
3. http://b.rw/iLGb1l
Ron Howell | Yale Alumni Magazine | 18 May 2011
Early African American graduates from Ivy League schools appear to be dying
sooner than their non-black contemporaries. Were their experiences then and
later more stressful than we think? (Thanks to Eric Weinberger for alerting
us) [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/their-time
[5]The Good Bad Son
Links:
5. http://b.rw/mL0dAF
James Verini | New York | 22 May 2011
Profile of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi whose career as Libya's reformist heir
apparent exploded on a February night when he threw in his lot with his
father against rebels. "You're better than this," he was told. Apparently
not [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/good-bad-son
[7]Internet Matters
Links:
7. http://b.rw/kJtvOO
Matthieu Pélissié du Rausas et al | McKinsey | 24 May 2011
Superb report on Internet's impact on economic growth, prosperity and jobs
(50-page PDF but stay with it). Key point: Internet is net creator of jobs.
For every traditional job destroyed by the Internet, 2.6 new jobs are
created [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/internet-matters
[9]Hot Dystopic
Links:
9. http://b.rw/j8UFbf
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | LA Review of Books | 20 May 2011
Is China more Orwell or Huxley? More Big Brother or vulgar materialism? It
can be either, depending on where you are. Sometimes these "duelling
dystopias" even co-exist in the same place. The Shanghai Expo, for example
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/hot-dystopic
[11]El Mirador, The Lost City Of The Maya
Links:
11. http://b.rw/mNHMGV
Chip Brown | Smithsonian | 24 May 2011
Account of trip to ruins of once great Mayan city, abandoned for 2,000
years. Author's daredevil guide steals show. On comparisons to Indiana
Jones: "My life isn’t as boring. He always jumps out of the airplane before
it crashes" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/el-mirador-lost-city-maya
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Stella Tillyard on the Regency period
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/stella-tillyard-on-regency-period
The best-selling author says the 19th century Regency era was, apart from
the duels and empire-line dresses, much like our own – a time of war and
economic uncertainty
Featured Topic
[14]Millennium Development Goals
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/millennium-development-goals
Everything you could ever need to know about the MDG. What are the key aid
issues facing us? What are the best methods to ensure sustainable
development? Are we making progress?
Reader Recommendations
@[15]sophiemaynard Top 10 myths about the
brain: [16]bit.ly/ksoRFj #[17]browsings h/t 3quarksdaily
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/sophiemaynard
16. http://bit.ly/ksoRFj
17. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[18]Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/ball-four-by-jim-bouton
[19]Joe Posnanski says: "It’s really the story of somebody trying
desperately to hold onto his youth, trying desperately to hold onto his
talent"
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/joe-posnanski-on-baseball
Video of the Day
[20]Paperwork Explosion
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/videos/paperwork-explosion
Information overload, 1967 edition. Made by Jim Henson for IBM
Quote of the Day
[21]Glen David Gold, on causality
Links:
21. http://crookedtimber.org/2011/05/25/sunnyside-fueled-by-randomness
"Such is the nature of the inexplicable that, as long as it does not
involve money, it can be ignored"