Newsletter 327
[1]Lady Gaga Takes Tea With Mr Fry
Links:
1. http://b.rw/lizTnM
Stephen Fry | FT | 27 May 2011
Eccentric British polymath interviews outrageous global music superstar.
Seriously. Irresistible from the start: "You get a strong sense of the
character and behaviour of a great star by smelling the mood of those around
them" [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/lady-gaga-takes-tea-mr-fry
[3]When We Finish, Nobody Is Left Alive
Links:
3. http://b.rw/mJaVgt
Michael Sontheimer | Spiegel | 27 May 2011
Nazi occupation of Poland. Spiegel dusts off another awful chapter of German
history. Six million killed. Aim was "to transform the Poles into a nation
of slaves", educated only to do simple sums, write their names, obey orders
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/when-we-finish-nobody-left-alive
[5]A Turning-Point We Miss At Our Peril
Links:
5. http://b.rw/lLtrFr
Johann Hari | Independent | 26 May 2011
Important read on climate change. "A marginalised voice is offering us a
warning, and an inspiring way to save ourselves – yet this alternative seems
to be passing unheard in the night. It is coming from the people of Ecuador"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/turning-point-we-miss-our-peril
[7]A Trip Around Our Solar System
Links:
7. http://b.rw/ihQqi2
Various | Atlantic | 27 May 2011
Wonderful photo gallery showing the full variety of our solar system. From
close-up shots of Mercury's surface to craters on Mars, giant asteroids and
comets as you have never seen them before. An awe-inspiring collection
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/trip-around-our-solar-system
[9]Are Artists Liars?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/kTS1Sn
Ian Leslie | More Intelligent Life | 24 May 2011
Both artists and liars refuse to accept "the tyranny of reality". In fact,
our storytelling and our lies have a common neurological root. We often
self-censor the lies. But maybe art evolved as a socially useful outlet for
lying [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/are-artists-liars
[11]Your Commute Is Killing You
Links:
11. http://b.rw/iFjrls
Annie Lowrey | Slate | 26 May 2011
People with long journey times suffer disproportionate pain, stress,
obesity, dissatisfaction. So why do we do it? Often it's to get a bigger
home for our money. But we fail to take the cost of our time spent commuting
into account [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/your-commute-killing-you
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Audrey Penn on Books for Teenagers
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/audrey-penn-on-books-teenagers
The children’s author picks five books she loved as a teenager – all stories
of struggle in the face of adversity which she identifies with her own
struggle with disability
Book of the Day
[14]On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/writing-memoir-craft-by-stephen-king
[15]Andrew Cowan says: "Students love it. It’s bracing: there’s no nonsense.
He says he is determined to tell it like it is"
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/andrew-cowan-on-creative-writing
Video of the Day
[16]Heineken: The Date
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/videos/heineken-date
Kill Bill meets Goodfellas meets at least one of the Flying Pickets
Reader Recommendations
_@acratley_ _@mcsweeneys_ Must-read for young attys fighting Goliath of big
banks/wrongful foreclosures #browsings [17]j.mp/mc7943 [18]#browsings
Links:
17. http://j.mp/mc7943
18. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Quote of the Day
[19]Sujata Gupta, on a hormone that may counter autism:
Links:
19. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/02/autism.html
Mice and monkeys release the hormone when they groom and mate, for
example, and humans given a dose of oxytocin are more likely to offer a
total stranger money, even if they don't get anything in return