Newsletter 324
[1]Ads Implant False Memories
Links:
1. http://b.rw/iUvRel
Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 25 May 2011
Investigating the remarkable way vivid adverts can implant false memories in
our brains. "Although we like to think of our memories as being immutable
impressions, somehow separate from the act of remembering them, they aren’t"
[2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ads-implant-false-memories
[3]Falling Comet
Links:
3. http://b.rw/kk4UkL
Michael Hall | Texas Monthly | 19 May 2011
In 1955 Bill Haley was the king of rock'n'roll. Twenty-five years later he
was a nobody in Harlingen, Texas. Scruffy, drunk, lonely, paranoid and
dying. Sleeping in his pool house, because even his wife didn't want him
close [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/falling-comet
[5]California's Jam-Packed Prisons
Links:
5. http://b.rw/jekLEn
Various | Mother Jones | 24 May 2011
The photos that persuaded the US Supreme Court to downsize California's
overcrowded prisons. Vast makeshift dormitories, concrete cells for
prisoners on suicide watch, tiny cages for those awaiting mental health care
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/californias-jam-packed-prisons
[7]The Brain On Sonar
Links:
7. http://b.rw/mjF8nk
Ed Yong | Not Exactly Rocket Science | 25 May 2011
A small but growing number of blind people can echolocate – that is,
navigate like bats using sonar. MRI scans reveal they process echoes in
areas of the brain devoted to sight, not hearing. So do they really see?
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brain-sonar
[9]Ten Design Lessons From Landscape Architecture
Links:
9. http://b.rw/jrLtaM
Jon Petersen | 37signals | 23 May 2011
And in particular from Frederick Law Olmsted, creator of Central Park. Main
precept: Make the artistry invisible. "Remove distractions and demands on
the conscious mind." Visitors should be "led without realising they’re being
led" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ten-design-lessons-landscape-architecture
[11]Man Milk
Links:
11. http://b.rw/keyPur
Michael Thomsen | Slate | 25 May 2011
"Men can lactate. While not widely known, the image of the breast-feeding
male dates back thousands of years." Armed with herbal supplements and a
pump, young male writer sets out to give it a go. Fun, unscientific read
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/michael-thomsen-slate-25th-may-2011
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Tobias Hecht on Understanding Infants
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tobias-hecht-on-understanding-infants
The anthropologist explains how infants are socially aware and why behaviour
thought inevitable in some cultures, such as tantrums, can be uncommon
elsewhere
Featured Topic
[14]Financial Crisis
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis
In-depth primer for both the expert and the amateur. Experts interviewed
include Eichengreen, Barro and Rodrik. Wide range of hand-picked background
articles
Reader Recommendations
@[15]LondonReview: MT @[16]Londonist 30 maps of Victorian London,
superimposed on a modern map [17]bit.ly/mDDwL6 [18]#browsings
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/LondonReview
16. http://twitter.com/Londonist
17. http://bit.ly/mDDwL6
18. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[19]Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids by Dorothea Arnold
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/egyptian-art-age-pyramids-by-dorothea-arnold
[20]Toby Wilkinson says: "Ancient Egypt is one of those subjects that lends
itself to large format books, and has done for the last 200 years. This is
one of the best"
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/toby-wilkinson-on-ancient-egypt
Video of the Day
[21]Mitt Romney: Our Favourite Liberal
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/videos/mitt-romney-our-favourite-liberal
Why Romney will have a hard time with the Republican right. Snark courtesy
of South Carolina Democrats
Quote of the Day
[22]Seth Godin, on viral marketing
Links:
22. http://blog.shelfluv.com/2011/05/interview-seth-godin
"Reward the sneezers who stand up and spread the ideas"